Location: Santa Monica, CA
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Model: On-site
Company Overview
Our client is a leading digital healthcare platform in the U.S. trusted by millions of consumers and healthcare professionals annually. They provide access to savings and affordability options for healthcare products nationwide, as well as comprehensive health research and information. Since their founding, they have helped consumers save billions on healthcare costs.
Their mission is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare through innovative digital solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.
About The Role
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for helping team members with the technical aspects of their jobs and be the point of escalation for any technical challenges and help troubleshoot problems that may arise. Beyond hands-on coding, you will drive end-to-end architectural design while maintaining alignment to deliver well-rounded solutions and promoting best practices and coding standards. You will also coordinate with team members in daily or weekly forums ensuring the right work is prioritized to align with business growth and deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Lead and direct the work of others
- Own strategy and implementation of products that deliver against team-owned business KPIs
- Make key system design and integration decisions and communicate these to implementing team members
- Materially improve performance and quality of team output
- Recommend changes to policies and establish procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
- Hire, train and supervise engineering staff members
- Work closely with others across teams and disciplines to ensure quality and reliability of services
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to define roadmap and vision
- Use business knowledge to guide team technical decisions
Skills And Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field
- 5+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a management or technical leadership role
- Seasoned and experienced manager who successfully leads a single function team
- Effective at hiring, retaining, and developing software engineers
- Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop several teams, both local and remote
- Demonstrable knowledge of application design, development, monitoring and operating critical domains and infrastructure reliably
- Experience developing full stack web applications with modern frameworks and technologies such as React, Next.js, GraphQL and microservices architectures
- Experience with automatic building/deployment services like Jenkins, AWS, CodeFresh, GCP, etc.
- Experience with APM and visual performance monitoring (DataDog, SpeedCurve or others)
- Experience with A/B testing platforms (Optimizely, Split, etc.)
- Experience with Content Delivery Networks (Cloudflare, Fastly or others)
- Experience integrating with different analytics/events-based systems like Segment, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, etc.
- Experience with using RESTful APIs (Protocol Buffers, etc.)
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and engineering teams on track
- Self-motivated with ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
- Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience
- Experience with identity management platforms is preferred
Nice To Have
- Healthcare industry experience is a plus
Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general best practices, such as reading and adhering to security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.
Compensation
Salary Range for Santa Monica location: $188,000 – $301,000
Our client offers competitive compensation packages including annual cash bonuses and equity grants, plus comprehensive benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Unlimited vacation
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Mental and financial wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
- Pet insurance
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
Our client is committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging applications from underrepresented groups including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, persons with disabilities, and Veterans.