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Backend Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Employers initiate the PERM labor certification process with DOL before filing the I-140 petition, making sponsorship a deliberate, multi-step commitment from the hiring company.
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Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.
Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com
Our Team
Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.
As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.
The Role
As a Senior Manager, Back End Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers responsible for the core policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms that support key product and operational initiatives at Quanata.
You'll combine people leadership with technical and architectural guidance, helping your team deliver scalable, secure, high-performing systems. You'll also help improve how the team operates, from engineering processes and capacity planning to technical decision-making and delivery.
Working closely with Product Management, Program Management, engineering leaders, and other teams across the company, you'll help align technical execution with broader business goals while coaching and developing mid-level, senior, and staff engineers.
Your Day-to-Day
- Coach, lead, and develop a team of mid-level, senior, and staff software engineers.
- Provide architectural guidance and support technical decision-making for back end systems.
- Partner with Product Management, Program Management, and teams across the company to drive successful product delivery.
- Improve engineering processes to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Set and manage expectations with leadership and external stakeholders.
- Drive team performance against KPIs for throughput, product quality, security, and performance.
- Lead sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing efforts.
- Stay current on industry trends and help drive adoption of engineering best practices.
About You
- Bachelor's degree, an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience with personnel development and performance management.
- Project management experience.
- Experience with sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing.
- Strong technical architecture fluency, with a focus on back end systems.
- Strong enterprise partnership and stakeholder management skills.
- Executive-ready written communication skills.
Bonus Points
- Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context and harness engineering, and autonomous agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with technologies used by the team, including Go, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Salary: $249,000 to $367,000*
Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.
Additional Details:
Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits. These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
Personal and Professional Development: We're committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.
Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice.
This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.
About us
Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.
Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com
Our Team
Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.
As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.
The Role
As a Senior Manager, Back End Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers responsible for the core policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms that support key product and operational initiatives at Quanata.
You'll combine people leadership with technical and architectural guidance, helping your team deliver scalable, secure, high-performing systems. You'll also help improve how the team operates, from engineering processes and capacity planning to technical decision-making and delivery.
Working closely with Product Management, Program Management, engineering leaders, and other teams across the company, you'll help align technical execution with broader business goals while coaching and developing mid-level, senior, and staff engineers.
Your Day-to-Day
- Coach, lead, and develop a team of mid-level, senior, and staff software engineers.
- Provide architectural guidance and support technical decision-making for back end systems.
- Partner with Product Management, Program Management, and teams across the company to drive successful product delivery.
- Improve engineering processes to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Set and manage expectations with leadership and external stakeholders.
- Drive team performance against KPIs for throughput, product quality, security, and performance.
- Lead sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing efforts.
- Stay current on industry trends and help drive adoption of engineering best practices.
About You
- Bachelor's degree, an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience with personnel development and performance management.
- Project management experience.
- Experience with sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing.
- Strong technical architecture fluency, with a focus on back end systems.
- Strong enterprise partnership and stakeholder management skills.
- Executive-ready written communication skills.
Bonus Points
- Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context and harness engineering, and autonomous agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with technologies used by the team, including Go, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Salary: $249,000 to $367,000*
Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.
Additional Details:
Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits. These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
Personal and Professional Development: We're committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.
Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice.
This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.
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Document your degree field carefully
PERM requires your degree to correspond directly to the Backend Engineer role. A computer science or software engineering degree strengthens alignment, but a degree in a related field can qualify if your transcript shows coursework in systems, algorithms, or distributed computing.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Search the DOL's OFLC Wage Search records to identify companies that have filed PERM certifications for software engineering roles. Employers who have done it before understand the process and are less likely to withdraw sponsorship midway.
Use Migrate Mate to filter by sponsorship history
Filter Backend Engineer listings by green card sponsorship history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces employers who have completed EB-2 or EB-3 filings for similar roles, cutting out the guesswork of asking recruiters about sponsorship willingness upfront.
Clarify the EB tier before accepting an offer
Ask whether the employer intends to file under EB-2 or EB-3 before signing. EB-2 requires demonstrating an advanced degree or equivalent, while EB-3 covers bachelor's-level roles. The tier affects your priority date and wait time if you're from a backlogged country.
Understand the PERM recruitment obligation
Your employer must complete a mandatory DOL recruitment process before filing PERM, advertising the role to U.S. workers. This typically takes three to six months. Starting discussions early in your job search gives the employer time to initiate that process before your current status expires.
Verify the job description matches O*NET requirements
PERM applications for Backend Engineer roles are compared against the O*NET occupation profile. If the posted job description overstates requirements, DOL may audit the filing. Confirm with your employer that the listed duties and degree requirements align with standard industry definitions.
Green Card Backend Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Backend Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Backend Engineer positions qualify for EB-3 sponsorship when the role requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. EB-2 applies if the position genuinely requires a master's degree or if you hold a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience that USCIS accepts as the equivalent. The tier your employer files under affects your priority date and potential wait time.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for Backend Engineers?
H-1B visa grants temporary work authorization for up to six years, with annual cap and lottery exposure. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no annual cap at the EB-3 classification level for most countries outside India and China. The PERM process takes longer upfront, typically one to three years from labor certification to I-485 approval, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a visa you need to renew.
How long does the EB-3 green card process take for a Backend Engineer?
From PERM filing to a green card in hand, the process typically runs one to three years for applicants from countries without significant backlogs. The PERM labor certification itself takes three to six months with DOL. After that, USCIS processes the I-140 petition, then you file I-485 for adjustment of status once your priority date is current. Applicants born in India or China face substantially longer waits due to per-country annual limits.
Where can I find Backend Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Backend Engineer roles specifically filtered by employment-based green card sponsorship history. Rather than asking every recruiter whether sponsorship is available, you can identify employers who have already completed EB-2 or EB-3 filings for software engineering roles, which signals both willingness and experience with the PERM process.
Can my employer start the PERM process while I'm on H-1B status?
Yes, and starting early is strategically important. USCIS allows H-1B extensions beyond the standard six-year limit once your PERM has been filed for 365 days or your I-140 has been approved. For Backend Engineers on H-1B, this means initiating the PERM process as early as possible protects your ability to stay in the U.S. while your green card application moves through the queue.