Manager, Engineering

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

Job summary

Stellarus seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. You will ensure the group has strategy, structure, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and senior leadership to align priorities, remove obstacles, and drive outcomes in support of Stellarus' evolving technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• 7 years of software engineering, full stack development, platform engineering, or related tech.
• 2+ years of management/people leadership experience.
• Strong Agile delivery, backlog, risk, and prioritization skills.
• Fluency with cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, and containerization.
• Experience with front-end frameworks, backend services, RESTful integrations, SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, Architecture, vendor, and business teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services and cloud-native apps.
• Align priorities across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and leadership; remove obstacles.
• Drive modernization efforts and improve engineering practices; guide major technical decisions.

Skills

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Risk management

Coaching and delegation

Communication skills

Cloud-native development

APIs

CI/CD

Security best practices

Stakeholder collaboration

SQL/NoSQL databases

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

AI-assisted coding

Education

Bachelor's degree / equivalent experience

Tools

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.