Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Manager, Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. You will ensure the team has strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 4 years in lieu of a degree.
• 7 years in software engineering/full stack/platform/tech delivery.
• 2 years in management or people leadership roles.
• Strong Agile delivery, backlog, risk, and delegation.
• Fluency with cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, and secure development practices.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containers, IaC, and AI-assisted coding tools.
• Experience in regulated, healthcare, enterprise, or complex technology environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native apps, and enterprise tech capabilities.
• Ensure strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable solutions.
• Guide major technical decisions, resolve risks, and support modernization efforts.
• Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, vendor, and leadership to align priorities.
• Drive outcomes that support Stellarus' mission and evolving technology strategy.
• Develop leaders, build high-performing teams, and foster continuous learning.

Skills

Software engineering

Full stack development

Platform engineering

Technical delivery

Infrastructure engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Front-end frameworks

Backend services

APIs

SQL / NoSQL databases

RESTful integrations

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

AI-assisted coding 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.