Engineering Leader: Cloud, Platform & Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires strong people and execution leadership with technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve risks, and support modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 7 years of experience in software engineering, full stack development, platform engineering, technical delivery, infrastructure engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 2 years of prior management, team leadership, supervisor, project/program management, or equivalent people leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery models, backlog management, technical scope management, risk management, prioritization, coaching, and delegation.
• Technical fluency across modern engineering practices such as cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, version control, secure development, system integrations, data models, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks, backend services, APIs, SQL and/or NoSQL databases, RESTful integrations, cloud platforms, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-assisted coding tools preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, Architecture, vendor, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience operating in regulated, healthcare, enterprise, or complex technology environments preferred.

Skills

People management

Agile delivery

Cloud-native development

Backlog management

DevOps / CI-CD

APIs & integrations

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

Job description

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires strong people and execution leadership with technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve risks, and support modernization efforts.