Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Virginia Beach (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Manager, Engineering at Stellarus leads 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 to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

They collaborate across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and senior leadership to align priorities, remove

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional experience.
• 7+ years in software engineering, full stack, platform, or related tech.
• 2+ years in people leadership or project management.
• Strong understanding of Agile, backlog, risk management, and prioritization.
• Fluency in cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, and secure coding.
• Experience with modern front-end and backend services, REST, SQL/NoSQL.
• Ability to collaborate across product, design, QA, security, and leadership.
• Experience in regulated healthcare or enterprise tech environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to design and deliver complex services, integrations, and cloud-native apps.
• Set strategy, structure, standards, and execution discipline for reliable solutions.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, platform, and senior leadership to align priorities.
• Foster growth, learning, and high-performing teams within a hybrid workplace.

Skills

Software engineering

Full stack development

Platform engineering

Agile delivery

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years experience

Tools

CI/CD tooling

APIs

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

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.