Engineering Manager - High-Impact Tech Lead (Sunnyvale)

Energy Innovation Corp; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Job summary

Anthem in Sunnyvale seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a freelance engineering effort delivering high-throughput systems. Read the Git traces, pair with analysts, and drive incremental improvements across our Sunnyvale platform.

You'll bring strong MySQL performance experience, TypeScript skills, and a track record of mentoring teams under real-world traffic. This role values ownership, collaboration, and a Growth Mindset as we scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of real-world engineering leadership experience.
• Experience delivering high-throughput backend systems.
• Strong MySQL query tuning and schema design skills.

Responsibilities

• Read stack traces and trace bugs to root cause.
• Pair with analysts to align MySQL models with real behavior.
• Ship incremental improvements to Anthem's Sunnyvale platform regularly.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Keep backward-compatible schemas during upgrades.

Skills

Engineering leadership

MySQL performance

TypeScript

Git debugging

Problem solving

Mentorship

Tools

Git

MySQL

SQL

Job description

Anthem in Sunnyvale seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a freelance engineering effort delivering high-throughput systems. Read the Git traces, pair with analysts, and drive incremental improvements across our Sunnyvale platform.

You'll bring strong MySQL performance experience, TypeScript skills, and a track record of mentoring teams under real-world traffic. This role values ownership, collaboration, and a Growth Mindset as we scale.