Manager, Engineering

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

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise capabilities. This role ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

The manager will guide major technical decisions, manage risks, and partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and leadership to drive outcomes aligned with the company’s evolving technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• 7 years of software engineering and related tech experience.
• 2 years of prior management or team leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, backlog, risk, prioritization, and delegation.
• Technical fluency in cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, security, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with front-end and backend technologies, databases, RESTful integrations, cloud platforms, and IaC.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and delivery of complex services, integrations, cloud-native apps, and enterprise tech capabilities.
• Provide strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline for secure, scalable solutions.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and senior leadership to align priorities and remove obstacles.
• Develop leaders and nurture high-performing teams through continuous learning and growth.

Skills

Software engineering

Full stack development

Platform engineering

Team leadership

Agile / Scrum

Cloud-native

APIs & integration

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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.