Senior Engineering Manager - Remote Cloud & Delivery Leader

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 136,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Disability & life insurance

Vacation & holidays

12 federal holidays

Annual bonus

Parental leave

Wellness resources

Virtual care

Sabbatical leave

401(k) match

Remote-friendly environment

Home office setup

Utility stipend

Learning & training

Courses & certifications

Referral bonus

Commuter benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a technical team and contribute as a technical lead, driving the design, development, and delivery of cloud-based solutions aligned with Nava’s mission.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring 10+ years in agile environments, expertise in Java/Spring Boot REST APIs, and AWS.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment.
• 1+ 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

• 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; handling on-call duties.
• Contributing to growing Nava’s client portfolio.
• 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 teamwork

People management

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

Hibernate

Jenkins

AWS

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Architecture review

Tools

Jenkins

AWS

PostgreSQL

Hibernate

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a technical team and contribute as a technical lead, driving the design, development, and delivery of cloud-based solutions aligned with Nava’s mission.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring 10+ years in agile environments, expertise in Java/Spring Boot REST APIs, and AWS.