Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Manager, Engineering to guide teams delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise tech capabilities. You will ensure strategy, talent, standards, and execution discipline to create secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

This role requires strong people leadership, execution focus, and technical depth to steer major decisions, mitigate risks, and support modernization across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional experience if no degree.
• 7+ years in software engineering, full stack, platform engineering, or related tech.
• 2+ years in management or people leadership roles.
• Strong Agile delivery, backlog and risk management experience.
• Fluency in cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, and secure coding.
• Familiarity with front-end, backend services, databases, and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee teams delivering complex services, integrations, and enterprise tech solutions.
• Ensure strategy, structure, talent, and execution discipline for secure, scalable products.
• Partner across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infra, and exec teams to align priorities.
• Lead modernization efforts and elevate engineering practices and risk management.
• Foster continuous learning and develop leaders at all levels.

Skills

People leadership

Agile delivery

Cloud-native development

API design & integrations

Technical depth for decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

RESTful integrations

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.