Manager, Software Engineering

You have proven industry experience in software design and development. You are a solution-centric, results-oriented, and experienced Engineering leader. You will lead other engineers, architects and cross functional teams in a collaborative environment to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects and in a manner that champions eHealth’s culture. You have in-depth technical background and proven industry experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing. You are ambitious, talented, and driven to make the team and project successful.

What you’ll do

• Being a hands-on manager, you will be responsible for both technical (60%) and management (40%) duties
• Maintain a value oriented and business driven approach to project prioritization and resourcing
• Collaborate effectively across teams and key stakeholders including Product Management, Product UX Design, Infrastructure, Business, other engineering teams
• Provide technical direction to software engineers, ensuring timely, quality design and implementation of applications, business logic
• Unblock development team by resolving technical blockers
• Perform day-to-day code reviews
• Work with Application Security and Security Compliance teams to ensure application adheres to standards such as HIPAA
• Document architecture using technical design documents, review and comment on architecture documents
• Enable and facilitate problem diagnosis and resolution in technical and functional areas
• Encourage change, particularly on the side of engineering best practices, developer experience, and process improvements
• Advance Shift-Left for quality practices with activities such as unit testing
• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with cross-functional teams
• Review the work of team members in a collegial fashion to promote growth, and to improve quality and engineering practices
• People responsibilities - conduct 1:1 meetings, providing feedback, promoting personal development, establishing goals, and plan for career growth
• Support production issues and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts
• Innovate using AI technoligies, and promote AI technologies in your team, to improve quality and velocity of your team.
• Demonstrate eHealth’s values in your behaviors, practices, and decisions.

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years leading engineering teams
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience in leading consumer facing engineering teams
• Experience using frontend technologies such as VueJS and ReactJS
• Experience in full stack JavaScript development and/or Java microservices development
• Experience with database technologies and persistence layer using Oracle and PostgreSQL
• Experience leading multiple projects concurrently
• Past experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team
• Technical skills: Java, JavaScript, algorithmic thinking, data structures, Restful API, system architecture, Spring Boot, TypeScript, component based UI frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS
• Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud infrastructures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with eCommerce business domain
• Experience of working with cross-functional team such as - marketing, partners, SEO, security etc.
• Experience with cloud architecture development
• Experience with CodeCascade developer tool is a plus