Senior Manager, Software Engineering
eHealth, Inc.About the role
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.
Sr Manager, Engineering (Financial Systems & Carrier Integration)
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. By doing so, our vision is to be the nation's leading and most trusted source of consumer purchasing of health insurance, ancillary products, and related options on our marketplace.
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 by developing software services and components that seamlessly send insurance applications to insurance carriers and track their status.
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 to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects and in a manner that champions eHealth’s culture. 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, ensuring scalable, high-quality data availability for advanced analytics and modeling
- 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, other engineering teams
- Provide technical direction to software engineers, ensuring timely, quality design and implementation of applications, business logic
- 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 plan for career growth
- Support production issues and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts
Basic 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 Ja
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