Manager – Software Engineering

Join us in creating a better way!

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide consumers through their health insurance and related options when, where, and how they prefer. We’re creating a better way – one that’s transparent and trustworthy for both our consumers externally and our employees internally. 

Move your career forward while connecting countless people to the life- changing, quality care they deserve. Our diverse team of innovators supports one another in solving some of the toughest challenges. We’re always on the lookout for creative opportunities to do right by our customers, and each other. Together, we’re creating a better way to work, united by our common passion to make a difference.

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to join the end-to-end ICHRA Engineering team at eHealth. This role will help lead efforts to deliver the company’s next-generation end-to-end ICHRA experience. This team will deliver consistent, high quality and intuitive user experience across entire ICHRA business flow. This team will develop user experience, build service layer and build integrations with banking and other partners.

Who you are:

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 to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects and in a manner that champions eHealth’s culture. You have 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.
 

What you’ll do

• Being a hands-on manager, you will be responsible for both technical (60%) and management (40%) 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, other engineering teams
• Provide technical direction to software engineers, ensuring timely, quality design and implementation of applications, business logic
• Unblock development team by resolving technical blockers
• Perform day-to-day code reviews
• Work with Application Security and Security Compliance teams to ensure application adheres to standards such as HIPAA
• Document architecture using technical design documents, review and comment on architecture 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 team members 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 plan for career growth
• Support production issues and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts
• Innovate using AI technoligies, and promote AI technologies in your team, to improve quality and velocity of your team.
• Demonstrate eHealth’s values in your behaviors, practices, and decisions.

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years leading engineering teams
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience in leading consumer facing engineering teams
• Experience using frontend technologies such as VueJS and ReactJS
• Experience in full stack JavaScript development and/or Java microservices development
• Experience with database technologies and persistence layer using Oracle and PostgreSQL
• Experience leading multiple projects concurrently
• Past experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team
• Technical skills: Java, JavaScript, algorithmic thinking, data structures, Restful API, system architecture, Spring Boot, TypeScript, component based UI frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS
• Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud infrastructures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with eCommerce business domain
• Experience of working with cross-functional team such as - marketing, partners, SEO, security etc.
• Experience with cloud architecture development
• Experience with CodeCascade developer tool is a plus

What we offer (benefits):

• Generous benefits include medical, dental and vision beginning on your first day of employment
• 401K with matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase program
• 12 company paid holidays and flexible time off (PTO for non-exempt)

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The base pay range reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The actual base pay offered will depend on various factors including individual skills, experience, performance, qualifications, the department budget, and the location where work is performed. Base pay is one component of eHealth’s total rewards package, which also includes an annual performance bonus, plus an array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness. For more information on our total rewards offerings, please visit our career site.

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Base Pay Range -$152,500 - $190,600

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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. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.