Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud-Native Delivery (Remote)

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 136,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Insurance coverage

Time off

Annual bonus

Parental leave

Wellness program

Virtual care

Sabbatical leave

401(k) match

Flexible work

Home office setup

Utility support

Learning opportunities

Development opportunities

Referral bonus

Commuter benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to mentor a growing team and contribute technically as a lead or IC. You will guide cross-functional product teams, define roadmaps, review designs, and ensure delivery of cloud-native solutions for government clients.

The role emphasizes active stewardship, root-cause analysis, long-term thinking, and building collaborative, inclusive teams. Remote-friendly with US-only work eligibility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms.
• 1+ year experience as a People Manager.
• Experience 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 short-term vs. long term benefits; an adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise.
• Prior experience working with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Handling on-call duties and systematically debugging and resolving issues when they occur.
• Working on business development 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

Agile team experience

People manager

Java & Spring Boot

PostgreSQL / ORM

DevOps / CI-CD

AWS cloud

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Jenkins CI/CD

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to mentor a growing team and contribute technically as a lead or IC. You will guide cross-functional product teams, define roadmaps, review designs, and ensure delivery of cloud-native solutions for government clients.

The role emphasizes active stewardship, root-cause analysis, long-term thinking, and building collaborative, inclusive teams. Remote-friendly with US-only work eligibility.