Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader provides strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires strong people and execution leadership with technical depth to guide major decisions, manage risks, and support modernization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years additional relevant experience.
• 7 years in software engineering or related technology disciplines.
• 2 years in people leadership or equivalent management experience.
• Strong Agile, backlog, risk, prioritization, and delegation skills.
• Technical fluency across cloud-native, APIs, CI/CD, and secure development.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks, backend services, databases, RESTful integrations, and IaC.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, and leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; experience in regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and delivery of complex services and cloud-native apps.
• Guide teams on strategy, standards, and execution discipline.
• Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and leadership teams to align priorities.
• Drive modernization efforts and manage risks while fostering learning.

Skills

7 years software engineering

People leadership

Agile delivery

Cloud-native development

APIs & CI/CD

Full stack tech

AI-assisted coding

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Healthcare/regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED

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.