Senior Manager, Software Engineering

eHealth

1d•Remote

About The Position

Join us in creating a better way! At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide consumers through their health insurance and related options when, where, and how they prefer. We’re creating a better way – one that’s transparent and trustworthy for both our consumers externally and our employees internally. Move your career forward while connecting countless people to the life- changing, quality care they deserve. Our diverse team of innovators supports one another in solving some of the toughest challenges. We’re always on the lookout for creative opportunities to do right by our customers, and each other. Together, we’re creating a better way to work, united by our common passion to make a difference. Sr Manager, Engineering (Financial Systems & Carrier Integration) At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide our customers through their health insurance needs by matching them with personalized, and affordable health insurance plans. We connect our customers with quality, affordable health insurance through a proprietary marketplace offering Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and ancillary plans from 200 health insurance carriers nationwide. By doing so, our vision is to be the nation's leading and most trusted source of consumer purchasing of health insurance, ancillary products, and related options on our marketplace. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to join the Financial Systems & Carrier Integration Engineering teams at eHealth. The Financial Systems team builds in-house software applications for revenue recognition, cash receipt and incentive compensation for partners and sales advisors. The Carrier Integration team helps design and build the company’s next-generation services in the Carrier Integration domain by developing software services and components that seamlessly send insurance applications to insurance carriers and track their status. How you will make an impact: 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 an 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.

Requirements

5+ years leading engineering teams
8 to 11 years of professional software engineering experience
Experience in leading consumer facing engineering teams
Experience in full stack software development with Java backend
Experience leading multiple projects concurrently
Past experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team
Technical skills: Java programming with Spring Boot framework, algorithmic thinking, data structures, Restful APIs, system architecture
Basic understanding of AWS or other cloud infrastructures
Experience in working with cross-functional teams such as – product, marketing, partners, security etc.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Nice To Haves

Experience using frontend technologies such as VueJS, ReactJS
Experience using GraphQL
Experience with CRM, financial applications and 3rd party enterprise integrations
Experience with AWS cloud architecture, Postgres DB, Redis cache on AWS

Responsibilities

Leverage emerging AI technologies to enhance performance, automation, and data-driven decision-making across systems and processes
Stay current with AI advancements and evaluate opportunities to apply them in solving complex engineering and business challenges
Build and optimize data infrastructure that powers AI and machine learning pipelines, ensuring scalable, high-quality data availability for advanced analytics and modeling
Being a hands-on manager, you will be responsible for both technical (50%) and management (50%) 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
Work with application security and security compliance team to ensure application adheres to standards such as HIPAA
Document architecture using technical design 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 other engineers 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