Engineering Manager

Anthem; Carlsbad (NM); On-site; USD 95,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthem in Carlsbad, NM seeks an Engineering Manager who embraces Scrum, GitLab CI, and ownership. You will guide sprint planning, contribute to tech roadmaps and mentor teams while delivering scalable code and robust production health monitoring.

The role emphasizes Rust expertise, Agile habits, and strong relationship-building skills within a growing technology group. Expect a structured full-time schedule with mentorship and clear career paths.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on experience in a technology role
• Growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• Proficiency with Rust
• Excellent relationship-building skills in a full-time setting
• 7+ years applying Agile in technology
• Attention to detail that catches spell-check misses

Responsibilities

• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and relationship-building libraries
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Anthem's growing user base
• Wire Terraform APIs to Scrum consumers so data lands where Carlsbad teams expect it

Skills

Rust

Agile

Relationship Building

Attention to detail

Growth mindset

7+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

Scrum

Job description

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives on solving hard problems with Scrum and GitLab CI. Cut to the chase and you get $95,000 - $141,000, a technology mandate, and Anthem colleagues who treat ownership as the default.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Relationship Building libraries
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for quality-obsessed production environments
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Anthem's growing user base
• Wire Terraform APIs to Scrum consumers so data lands where Carlsbad teams expect it

What You'll Bring

• Around 7+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role
• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• A knack for Rust that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Practical Relationship Building skills sharpened in a full-time setting
• 7+ years putting Agile to work in a technology setting
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses

The founders of Anthem left bigger companies to build something empowering in Carlsbad, and technology has been better for it. You set the boundaries of your full-time schedule and we respect them without the side-eye.

Compensation lands at $95,000 - $141,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior technology work is mapped, not vague.