Senior Engineering Manager: Lead Cloud-Native Govt Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Insurance coverage

Time off

Company holidays

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 an Engineering Manager to lead career growth of direct reports while contributing technically as an individual contributor or technical lead.

You will engage with cross-functional teams, users, and vendors to ensure design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions aligned with Nava’s mission. Responsibilities include code writing, architecture reviews, roadmaps, and on-call production support, with a focus on cloud-native microservices and

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience working 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
• 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

• Write code and perform code reviews with the engineering team
• Write and review technical specifications
• Work closely with cross-functional product teams to identify and mitigate technical risks
• Guide 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
• Design technical roadmaps
• Propose and enforce technical architecture
• Maintain production systems
• Handle on-call duties and systematically debug and resolve issues when they occur
• Engage with clients and government stakeholders to align on technical initiatives
• Contribute to growing Nava’s client portfolio and growth strategy

Skills

People Management

Cloud-native microservices

Java / Spring Boot

PostgreSQL / ORM

AWS

DevOps / CI-CD

Technical leadership

Software design

On-call / production support

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Spring Boot

Java

Docker

PostgreSQL

Hibernate

Jenkins CI/CD

REST APIs

AWS

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead career growth of direct reports while contributing technically as an individual contributor or technical lead.

You will engage with cross-functional teams, users, and vendors to ensure design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions aligned with Nava’s mission. Responsibilities include code writing, architecture reviews, roadmaps, and on-call production support, with a focus on cloud-native microservices and