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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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Align your credentials before PERM starts
PERM requires your education and experience to match the job description exactly. Get foreign degrees evaluated by a NACES-member credential evaluator early, since mismatches between your transcript and the posted job duties are a leading cause of PERM denial.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data to identify tech employers who have sponsored backend developer roles before. Prior filings signal an established immigration process and HR teams who already understand the PERM recruitment and prevailing-wage requirements.
Verify the job description covers your actual work
The DOL compares your daily duties to the PERM job description at audit. Before signing an offer, confirm that the written requirements reflect your real responsibilities, not a stripped-down posting designed to make recruitment easier for the employer.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 for your background
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or equivalent, while EB-3 covers professionals with a bachelor's degree. If your employer files EB-3, priority dates for most countries move faster than EB-2, which can meaningfully reduce your total wait time to a green card.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Searching for backend developer roles with verified green card sponsorship history saves weeks of manual research. Migrate Mate surfaces employers who have filed PERM labor certifications for this role type, so you can focus applications where sponsorship is already established.
Negotiate PERM filing timing into your offer
PERM has no grace period tied to visa status the way H-1B visa does, but employers control when they file. Ask during the offer stage whether the company starts PERM within your first year, since delays beyond three years can affect your priority date under AC21 portability.
Green Card Senior Backend Developer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Backend Developer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Senior Backend Developer positions typically qualify for both categories. EB-2 applies if the role requires a master's degree or equivalent, or if your employer files for a National Interest Waiver. EB-3 covers positions requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. The sponsoring employer chooses the category based on the posted job requirements and your credentials.
How does green card sponsorship through PERM differ from H-1B for a backend developer?
H-1B is a temporary, employer-tied status subject to an annual lottery and a six-year cap. PERM-based green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities, no lottery, and results in lawful permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status. The tradeoff is a longer process: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status or consular processing typically take two to four years from filing, depending on your country of birth and USCIS processing times.
What does the PERM process require from a Senior Backend Developer applicant?
Your employer drives the PERM filing, but your credentials must match the posted job description exactly. You'll need to provide educational transcripts, foreign degree evaluations if applicable, and employment verification letters documenting prior experience. USCIS and DOL both review whether your qualifications meet the stated minimum requirements, so discrepancies between your resume and the PERM application are a common audit trigger.
How can I find Senior Backend Developer jobs where employers will sponsor a green card?
Not every employer who hires on H-1B is prepared to run a multi-year PERM process. Migrate Mate filters Senior Backend Developer roles by verified PERM filing history, so you can identify companies that have already navigated the labor certification and I-140 process for this job type. Targeting employers with a documented sponsorship track record significantly reduces the risk of an employer backing out mid-process.
What happens to my green card sponsorship if I change employers after PERM is filed?
If your I-140 petition has been approved and you've waited at least 180 days, AC21 portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. For backend developer roles, most software engineering and developer positions qualify as sufficiently similar. Changing employers before I-140 approval or within the first 180 days generally requires starting the PERM process from scratch with the new company.