Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build distribute and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented legacy value chain enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster reach more people and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs Hedosophia NEA Valar 8VC) and trusted by major carriers Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision purpose and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work meaningful benefits equity and substantial growth opportunities.

Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

The Frontend Platform team is responsible for all frontend applications libraries tooling and infrastructure for Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We serve employees consumers and enterprise customers. In addition to building software we integrate and manage many third-party products used by employees and as part of the platform.

Within Bestow Engineering our major functional teams are product engineering infrastructure IT data and analytics and program management. Frontend Platform works closely with upstream engineering teams experience design and product management to define and prioritize the product roadmap.

We are looking for multiple engineers to join our team.

This role will report to our Engineering Manager and is open to Remote (US).

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The right candidate for this role will:

• Lead the evolution of our cutting-edge frontend platform driving architectural decisions and establishing patterns that enable scalable experiences across the organization

• Architect and implement complex user interfaces setting standards for accessibility performance and responsive design while mentoring others on best practices

• Partner with backend engineers to design and evolve our platform capabilities

• Provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams influencing product direction and technical roadmaps while ensuring alignment between user needs business objectives and technical excellence

• Champion engineering excellence through comprehensive testing strategies establishing team standards for unit integration and end-to-end testing

• Lead by example in code reviews providing thoughtful feedback that elevates team capabilities and maintains architectural consistency

• Optimize and evolve our CI/CD infrastructure using NX and CircleCI driving improvements in build times deployment reliability and developer experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with significant depth in React and modern SSR frameworks (Remix NextJS etc.)

• Expert-level understanding of GraphQL architecture including schema design performance optimization resolver patterns and the ability to guide architectural decisions around API design

• Proven track record of delivering accessible performant and scalable frontend solutions with demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with business needs

• Strong leadership and communication skills with experience influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and stakeholder groups

• Advanced knowledge of testing strategies and tools (Jest Vitest React Testing Library Playwright/Cypress) with experience establishing testing standards and practices

• Extensive experience designing and optimizing build and deployment pipelines with a focus on developer productivity and system reliability

• Demonstrated experience building and scaling frontend architectures that support rapid growth with deep understanding of performance optimization code splitting micro-frontends and modular design patterns

• Track record of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers helping them grow their technical skills and career development

• Leverages AI-augmented development tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor GitHub Copilot) to accelerate the delivery of high-quality UI components automate frontend testing and mentor peers on integrating AI workflows to streamline complex state management and styling tasks.

At Bestow we’re proud to be awarded for our team members innovative products and culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role

• Policies and managers that support work/life balance like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs

• 100% paid-premium option for medical dental and vision insurance

• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical emotional and financial wellbeing

• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

• Remote and WFH options as well as a beautiful state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting

• Employee-led diversity equity and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

• Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025

• Great Place to Work Certified 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025

• Built In Best Places to Work 2022 + 2023 + 2025

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire recruit and promote regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin pregnancy or maternity veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!

What We Do

At Bestow we’re on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. We’re building the technology to modernize the life insurance industry and make things easier on everyone from consumers to carriers. It’s an audacious goal sure. But we’re just crazy enough to pull it off.

Why Work With Us

Our employees consistently say “Bestow is a great place to work” and we have the trophies to prove it — we've been Great Place to Work certified for three years running.

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