Remote Engineering Manager: Cloud & People Leadership

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 136,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) match

Remote-first environment

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to mentor engineers, lead technical delivery, and contribute as a technical lead. The role focuses on design, development, and delivery of cloud-based solutions in support of Nava’s mission to public service excellence.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to drive secure, scalable architectures. The position emphasizes leadership, long-term thinking, and inclusive collaboration, with

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms.
• 1 or more years experience as a People Manager.
• Designing and implementing production-grade, cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and containerized deployment patterns.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres, using JDBC and ORM mappers like Hibernate.
• Experience with DevOps, preferably with Jenkins CI/CD.
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and data engineering.
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate on working code.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and long-term benefits.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise.
• Prior experience working with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Management/Technical Leadership.
• Writing code and performing code reviews.
• Writing and reviewing technical specifications.
• Working closely with cross-functional product teams to identify and mitigate technical risks.
• Guiding the engineering team on planning, estimation, prioritization, trade-offs, and balancing technical debt and meeting project milestones.
• Review architecture and designs from other project teams.
• Designing technical roadmaps.
• Proposing and enforcing technical architecture.
• Maintaining production systems and handling on-call duties.
• Contributing to growing Nava’s client portfolio and bids.
• Participating in client stakeholder meetings related to growth.
• Working with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives.
• Strategizing with leadership on ways to grow projects.
• Attending conferences and networking with potential clients.
• Reviewing strategy plans and outlining technical requirements for potential work.

Skills

10+ years experience in agile multi-d

People management

Cloud-native microservices

Java & Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

JDBC & Hibernate

Jenkins CI/CD

AWS cloud services

Leadership & communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Spring Boot

Postgres

JDBC

Hibernate

Jenkins

AWS

Docker

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to mentor engineers, lead technical delivery, and contribute as a technical lead. The role focuses on design, development, and delivery of cloud-based solutions in support of Nava’s mission to public service excellence.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to drive secure, scalable architectures. The position emphasizes leadership, long-term thinking, and inclusive collaboration, with