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Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager (Insurance Technology)
AI-Powered Specialty Insurance Platform
Location: UK or Eastern Europe (Remote, with occasional team meet-ups) Salary: Up to £100,000 / €100,000 (depending on location), plus potential equity
The Opportunity
Our client is one of the most exciting early-stage Insurtech businesses specialising in Specialty Insurance. With proven commercial traction and substantial financial backing, they are accelerating their growth and now seek an Engineering Manager to shape the next phase of their product evolution.
This newly created role presents a chance to become a key technical leader in building the next generation of their market-leading Policy Administration Platform. Instead of inheriting an existing team, you will:
- Design and drive an innovative Agentic AI version of the product.
- Contribute decisively to the long-term platform architecture.
- Help position the company at the forefront of AI-native insurance technology.
For the right candidate, this is a career-defining opportunity, offering significant potential for growth as the business scales internationally.
The Role
A hands-on Engineering Manager role, blending technical leadership with software engineering excellence. You will spearhead the next phase of the company’s AI-enabled Policy Administration System for the Specialty Insurance sector.
While supported by specialist engineers in front-end, back-end, and data architecture, you will:
- Personally drive technical direction, write critical code, and ensure the platform evolves into a best-in-class, AI-native solution.
- Stay actively engaged in coding, design, and architecture while delegating operational details.
- Experiment with AI-assisted development, including prompt engineering, debugging, and workflow automation.
Ideal for engineers who love building and staying hands-on—remaining excited by complex challenges and emerging AI tools.
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Key Responsibilities
- ✔ Lead the technical design and development of the next-generation Agentic AI platform for Policy Administration.
- ✔ Design and build cutting-edge components while modernising the existing PAS across front-end, back-end, and data architecture.
- ✔ Own technical decisions, ensuring software quality and adherence to engineering best practices.
- ✔ Collaborate with AI tools for code generation, debugging, and workflow acceleration, enhancing productivity.
- ✔ Stay ahead of AI advancements, identifying opportunities to optimise product and engineering processes.
- ✔ Work closely with Product, Operations, and leadership to align technical strategy with business goals.
- ✔ Mentor and grow the engineering team as we scale.
- ✔ Shape long-term engineering strategy and cloud/distributed architecture.
About You
We are looking for a Passionate Technical Leader who:
- Still enjoys writing high-quality code while scaling teams.
- Currently serves (or previously excelled) as a Software Engineering Manager, Lead Engineer, or Technical Lead in Insurtech or insurance software.
- Is curious and hands-on with AI technologies, experimenting with ML/AI, LLM integration, and Agentic AI in software development.
Essential Expertise
- ✔ Recent experience working on an Insurance Policy Administration System (PAS) or claims/admissions middleware.
- ✔ Strong software engineering background (front-end & back-end development).
- ✔ Proven ability to design scalable data architectures and distributed cloud systems.
- ✔ Experienced leading or mentoring engineering teams.
- ✔ Disciplined coding mindset—able to remain actively involved in design and development.
- ✔ Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and microservices architectures.
- ✔ Deep understanding of best practices in software engineering, design patterns, and system scalability.
- ✔ Able to translate technical concepts clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- ✔ Self-starter thriving in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments.
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AI & Modern Engineering Skills (Preferred)
Experience with any of the following is a strong advantage:
- ⚡ Using AI coding assistants in daily development workloads.
- ✖ Prompt engineering to accelerate software design and testing.
- 🔍 Evaluating and debugging AI-generated code.
- 🤖 Collaboration with Agentic AI frameworks and autonomous workflows.
- 📊 Experimenting with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI orchestration in software development.
- 🔄 Applying AI to improve engineering productivity, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
Note: While AI-familiarity is important, a background in traditional insurance software engineering matters more.
Why Join?
- 🚀 Grow with a cutting-edge Insurtech—already commercially successful and backed by major investors.
- 🌍 Seize an opportunity to build an AI-native Policy Administration System—not maintain a legacy solution.
- 🔮 Influence the industry by defining how Agentic AI reshapes Specialty Insurance Technology.
- 💡 Flexibility & growth: Remote-first with UK or Eastern Europe-based work options; competitive up to £100k/€100k, plus equity potential.
- 📈 Exceptional career trajectory, with room to own technological bets and scale with the company.
If you are technically motivated, vision-driven, and passionate about transforming insurance with AI, apply today!
✨ This role is rare—a chance to shape the future of insurance technology while keeping your hands close to the code. ✨
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