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Backend Software Developer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the position. Most backend roles satisfy the specialty occupation standard, and your employer files the I-140 petition after PERM approval.
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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Backend Software Developer
Align your degree field to the role
EB-2 and EB-3 PERM filings require your degree to match the job's educational requirement. A computer science or software engineering degree maps cleanly to backend roles; a business or general IT degree may trigger a Request for Evidence.
Target employers with existing PERM infrastructure
Companies that have filed PERM applications before already have immigration counsel, internal processes, and budget approved. Search DOL PERM disclosure data to identify employers who have sponsored backend developers in the past two years.
Use OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer
Your employer's PERM filing must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your job title and location. Pull your specific SOC code and metro area from OFLC Wage Search so you know the floor before the offer letter is signed.
Find green card sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Search by job title and location on Migrate Mate to filter specifically for backend roles where employers have active green card sponsorship history, so you're not cold-applying to companies without an established sponsorship process.
Clarify the job duties scope early in the interview
PERM requires the employer to lock in a specific job description before filing. If your role shifts significantly after you start, the approved PERM may no longer match your actual duties, which can complicate your I-140 petition down the line.
Understand concurrent filing if your priority date is current
If your country of birth allows it, USCIS permits concurrent filing of I-140 and I-485 when a visa number is immediately available. For EB-3 backend developer roles, this can shorten total green card processing time significantly.
Green Card Backend Software Developer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Backend Software Developer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most backend developer positions qualify under EB-3 as a skilled worker or professional role. EB-2 applies if the position requires an advanced degree, such as a master's or higher in computer science or a related field, or if the candidate has equivalent specialized credentials. Your employer's job description and your specific educational background determine which category fits.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for a backend developer?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant visa with an annual lottery cap and a maximum duration that requires extensions. Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries. The PERM process typically takes one to two years before the I-140 is filed, but once approved, your status is permanent rather than tied to an employer's continued sponsorship of a temporary visa.
What does the PERM labor certification process involve for a backend developer role?
Your employer must conduct a supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. worker is available for the specific backend developer position. DOL reviews the recruitment steps, the prevailing wage determination, and the job requirements. Typical PERM processing takes six to eighteen months depending on whether the application is selected for audit. Only after PERM approval can your employer file the I-140 petition with USCIS.
Where can I find backend developer jobs where employers already sponsor green cards?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for backend developer roles where employers have a documented green card sponsorship history. Filtering by sponsorship type upfront saves you from applying to companies that only sponsor H-1B visas or have no immigration infrastructure, and it surfaces roles where the PERM and I-140 pipeline is already familiar to the hiring team.
Can I switch employers after my PERM is approved but before my green card is issued?
Once your I-140 petition has been approved and is at least 180 days old, U.S. immigration law allows you to port to a new employer in the same or a similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. For backend developers, this typically means moving to another software development or engineering role. USCIS evaluates whether the new position is sufficiently similar to the one listed on the original approved petition.