iCapital operates an end-to-end fintech marketplace that streamlines onboarding, compliance, subscription, administration, reporting, due diligence and distribution of private market and alternative investments for wealth managers and advisors.
<p class="p1"><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p class="p1">iCapital is looking to hire a Software Engineering Manager to join the Annuities Platform team. Leading teams of C# and React engineers across US and India, this individual will manage developers responsible for the delivery of world class software for the entire sales workflow from quoting, insurance applications, e-signature to submission, used by the top US Life and Annuities carriers and distributors.<span class="s1"> </span> This role will focus relentlessly on delivering high-quality software products, driving AI adoption, raising the bar on engineering practices, agile development, and help migrate the application stack to a modern services-oriented product while maintaining the highest standards for availability and quality.<span class="s1"> </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">Manage teams of 7–12 across two PODs, consisting of C# and React engineers in North America responsible for implementing Firelight Platform features.</li> <li class="li1">Build highly available, fault-tolerant customer-facing applications using service-based architectures and lead the migration from monolithic applications to modern service stacks, including decomposition efforts.</li> <li class="li1">Review code and provide consistent, high-quality feedback to maintain strong engineering standards.</li> <li class="li1">Develop, mentor, and coach team members while fostering a positive work environment.</li> <li class="li1">Lead the practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, including responsible use of coding assistants, developer productivity tools, and customer-facing AI-enabled features.</li> <li class="li1">Lead and manage the technical execution of multiple complex software development projects.</li> <li class="li1">Drive adherence to existing processes and define new or improved processes within teams.</li> <li class="li1">Motivate teams to solve problems and deliver high-quality results.</li> <li class="li1">Manage stakeholder relationships across the business group and broader organization.</li> <li class="li1">Perform risk and dependency management across the engineering organization.</li> <li class="li1">Oversee resource planning activities, align work with organizational strategy, and integrate efforts across teams as needed.</li> <li class="li1">Ensure delivery of software within quality standards by facilitating and maintaining a clear definition of done (DoD) for Agile stories.</li> <li class="li1">Measure business value delivered by teams, including features committed versus released and user stories completed, and analyze productivity through bug-to-feature ratios.</li> <li class="li1">Assess delivery efficiency using lead time (idea to deployment) and cycle time (development to deployment) metrics.</li> <li class="li1">Evaluate backlog health by analyzing backlog size, aging items, and prioritization effectiveness.</li> <li class="li1">Monitor delivery quality through defect density, code review feedback, and test coverage metrics.</li> <li class="li1">Assess sprint performance using completion rates, goal achievement, velocity, and improvement actions to close gaps.</li> <li class="li1">Analyze code metrics, including commit volume, pull request activity, and code complexity.</li> </ul> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">7- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading diverse, global engineering teams</li> <li class="li1">Strong technical background building customer-facing, mission-critical web applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Entity Framework Core, React, JavaScript and TypeScript, or comparable technologies</li> <li class="li1">Experience designing scalable, secure, high-performance enterprise solutions using Microsoft technologies, SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, NoSQL platforms, and modern API security practices</li> <li class="li1">Extensive experience with AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) and customer facing applications using Azure Foundry, MCP, or OpenAI APIs</li> <li class="li1">Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and Azure services, including App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, Azure DevOps, CI/CD automation, Service Bus, Event Grid</li> <li class="li1">Experience applying modern architecture and engineering practices, including SOLID principles, clean architecture, domain-driven design, microservices, code quality, performance optimization, and secure development</li> <li class="li1">Proven ability to mentor engineers, conduct effective code reviews, foster a high-performance engineering culture, and drive continuous improvement through Agile delivery practices and metrics</li> <li class="li1">Strong product mindset with the ability to shape requirements, influence roadmap decisions, manage competing priorities, and oversee multiple complex projects simultaneously</li> <li class="li1">Experience modernizing technology platforms, optimizing existing codebases, improving DevOps-based delivery execution, and supporting SaaS product development</li> <li class="li1">Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical and architectural decisions under pressure</li> <li class="li1">Experience with large-scale third-party integrations, external software integrations, consulting or client-delivery environments, and vendor or partner relationship management</li> <li class="li1">Experience in Life Insurance, Annuities, InsurTech, broader FinTech, mobile development, AI/ML capabilities, and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Git, and Azure Boards is a plus</li> </ul> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <p class="p1">The bas