Manager - Full Stack Development

Manager – Full Stack Development

Location: United States – Remote

Experience: 10 to 12 years

You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below.

Tech Stack: Distributed Systems, AWS (incl. EKS), OpenShift, Automation (CI/CD & IaC), Go, Python, Node.js, AI-Assisted Software Development

Role Overview

We are looking for a Manager, Full Stack Development to provide strategic leadership across multiple engineering teams delivering complex, highly available, distributed systems on AWS using Go, Python, and Node.js on Kubernetes-based platforms such as EKS and OpenShift. You will own the engineering practice at the program or account level, combining deep technical authority with organizational leadership, executive stakeholder engagement, and responsibility for talent strategy, delivery excellence, and cross-team coordination. This is a senior leadership role for someone who can set a compelling technical vision, build high-performing teams, and be a trusted partner to client leadership and internal executives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic engineering leadership across multiple full stack development teams, setting direction, standards, and culture
• Own the architectural vision and technical roadmap for distributed systems programs on AWS, EKS, and OpenShift
• Define and govern engineering standards, coding practices, architectural patterns, and quality benchmarks at the practice level
• Lead AWS infrastructure strategy across programs, including cost optimization, security governance, resilience design, and platform evolution
• Drive automation-first culture across CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing, and operational practices at scale
• Build, grow, and retain a high-performing engineering organization; own workforce planning, hiring strategy, and senior talent development
• Serve as the primary engineering executive for client stakeholders, building trusted relationships and driving strategic alignment
• Own program-level delivery commitments, escalation management, and risk mitigation across engagements
• Partner with practice leads, account executives, and delivery leadership to shape proposals, scope engagements, and grow the account
• Establish and drive the AI-assisted engineering strategy across the practice, setting standards and governance for adoption
• Mentor and collaborate with Technical Leads and Engineers to drive delivery efficiency and Client satisfaction
• Represent the engineering practice in internal leadership forums and contribute to organizational capability building

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10-12 years of software engineering experience, including substantial depth in distributed systems and at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles
• Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python, with strong working proficiency in Node. xhyhwjd js for polyglot service environments
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS architecture and services, including container orchestration on EKS
• Hands-on experience running and operating workloads on Red Hat OpenShift as an enterprise Kubernetes platform
• Extensive experience designing and scaling automation frameworks and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible) at the program level
• Mastery of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, fault tolerance, service mesh, messaging systems (Kafka, SQS/SNS), and data partitioning
• Proven track record leading and scaling engineering organizations across multiple teams or accounts
• Executive presence and communication skills -- experienced presenting to C-level client stakeholders and internal leadership
• Experience with workforce planning, hiring, performance management, and organizational design
• Track record of owning complex delivery programs, managing risk, and driving outcomes at the account or portfolio level

AI Knowledge & AI-Assisted Development (Required)

• Strong, demonstrated use of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) across the full development lifecycle: design, coding, testing, review, and documentation
• Defines and owns the organization-level strategy and governance for responsible AI-assisted coding, including validation rigor, security standards for AI-generated code, and data leakage prevention in prompts
• Deep practical knowledge of AI/LLM integration patterns for backend systems: APIs, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and agentic workflows (e.g., MCP)
• Drives AI adoption across the engineering practice to measurably improve velocity, code quality, and operational efficiency; builds the internal capability to sustain it
• Owns AI governance policy across the practice, ensuring alignment with enterprise data privacy, security, and compliance requirements -- including PHI and sensitive health plan data

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep domain expertise in the US health insurance or payer space: claims, enrollment, benefits, provider networks, and HIPAA/compliance-aware system design at the enterprise level
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, X12 EDI) applied across large-scale programs
• Proven experience in a client-facing consulting or professional services environment at the delivery or account leadership level
• Experience contributing to business development, RFP responses, or solution design for new or expanding client engagements

NOTE: The job is for our client and this is Full-Time position directly with our client.