[Remote] Manager, Software Engineering

About eHealth, Inc.

eHealth, Inc. is dedicated to guiding consumers through their health insurance options. For over 25 years, we've helped millions of Americans find the healthcare plan that fits their needs at a price they can afford. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, eHealth, Inc. has a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://ehealthinsurance.com.

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About the Role

This is a remote job open to candidates in the USA.

eHealth, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead their Engineering team. This role focuses on delivering a high-quality user experience for the company's health insurance marketplace, overseeing both technical and managerial responsibilities while fostering collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• 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 and business logic.
• Unblock the development team by resolving technical blockers.
• Perform day-to-day code reviews.
• Work with Application Security and Security Compliance teams to ensure applications adhere to standards such as HIPAA.
• Document architecture using technical design documents, and review and comment on architecture documents.
• Enable and facilitate problem diagnosis and resolution in technical and functional areas.
• Encourage change, particularly regarding 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 improve quality and engineering practices.
• 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.
• Innovate using AI technologies and promote AI technologies within your team to improve quality and velocity.
• Demonstrate eHealth's values in your behaviors, practices, and decisions.

Skills

• 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 layers using Oracle and PostgreSQL and patterns like RSH.
• 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.
• Experience with eCommerce business domain.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as marketing, partners, SEO, security, etc.
• Experience with cloud architecture development.
• Experience with CodeCascade developer tool is a plus.

Benefits

• 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).