Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus seeks a Manager of Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services and cloud-native applications. The role ensures strategy, structure, talent, and standards to build secure, scalable software.

The candidate will guide critical decisions, manage risks, and drive modernization while collaborating with Product, Architecture, Security, and senior leadership to meet evolving technology goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 4 additional years in lieu of a degree are acceptable.
• 7 years in software engineering, full stack development, platform engineering, or related tech.
• 2 years of prior management or team leadership experience.
• Strong Agile delivery and backlog management.
• Technical fluency in cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, version control, secure development, and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee teams delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native apps.
• Guide major technical decisions and risk management.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, vendors and leadership to align priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

REST APIs

Job description

Your Role

The Manager, Engineering oversees a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures teams have the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Managers are expected to be strong people and execution leaders with enough technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align priorities, remove obstacles, and drive outcomes that support Stellarus' mission and evolving technology strategy.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• 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.

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.