Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Role Description

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide our customers through their health insurance needs by matching them with personalized, and affordable health insurance plans. We connect our customers with quality, affordable health insurance through a proprietary marketplace offering Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and ancillary plans from 200 health insurance carriers nationwide.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to join the Financial Systems & Carrier Integration Engineering teams at eHealth. The Financial Systems team builds in-house software applications for revenue recognition, cash receipt and incentive compensation for partners and sales advisors. The Carrier Integration team helps design and build the company’s next-generation services in the Carrier Integration domain.

How you will make an impact:

• You have proven industry experience in software design and development.
• You are a solution-centric, results-oriented, and experienced engineering leader.
• You will lead other engineers, architects, and cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment.
• You have an in-depth technical background and proven industry experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing.
• You are ambitious, talented, and driven to make the team and project successful.

Responsibilities

• Leverage emerging AI technologies to enhance performance, automation, and data-driven decision-making across systems and processes.
• Stay current with AI advancements and evaluate opportunities to apply them in solving complex engineering and business challenges.
• Build and optimize data infrastructure that powers AI and machine learning pipelines.
• Being a hands-on manager, you will be responsible for both technical (50%) and management (50%) duties.
• Maintain a value-oriented and business-driven approach to project prioritization and resourcing.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and key stakeholders including Product Management, Product UX Design, Infrastructure, Business, and other engineering teams.
• Provide technical direction to software engineers, ensuring timely, quality design and implementation of applications.
• Work with application security and security compliance team to ensure application adheres to standards such as HIPAA.
• Document architecture using technical design documents.
• Enable and facilitate problem diagnosis and resolution in technical and functional areas.
• Encourage change, particularly on the side of engineering best practices, developer experience, and process improvements.
• Advance shift left for quality practices with activities such as unit testing.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Review the work of other engineers in a collegial fashion to promote growth, and to improve quality and engineering practices.
• People responsibilities - conduct 1:1 meetings, providing feedback, promoting personal development, establishing goals, and planning for career growth.
• Support production issues and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• 8 to 11 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience in leading consumer-facing engineering teams.
• Experience in full stack software development with Java backend.
• Experience leading multiple projects concurrently.
• Past experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team.
• Technical skills: Java programming with Spring Boot framework, algorithmic thinking, data structures, Restful APIs, system architecture.
• Basic understanding of AWS or other cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams such as product, marketing, partners, security, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using frontend technologies such as VueJS, ReactJS.
• Experience using GraphQL.
• Experience with CRM, financial applications, and 3rd party enterprise integrations.
• Experience with AWS cloud architecture, Postgres DB, Redis cache on AWS.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range - $182,800 - $228,500.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness.

Company Description

eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.