Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Stellar Health as a hands-on Engineering Manager, balancing technical contributions with effective people management. You will manage a full-stack team, collaborate with engineering leaders, and drive the technical direction of key initiatives. This role involves building new product features, APIs, and integrations to improve provider performance and patient outcomes. You'll work with a mature engineering culture in a small, impactful team. The position requires significant software development experience, team management skills, and expertise in large-scale system architecture. Stellar offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience in Python or other backend languages (Java / C++ / Go / Ruby)
• 3+ years of experience managing software development teams with hands-on involvement in system architecture, design and performance
• Solid experience in large scale system architecture design and implementation, with full stack experience (e.g., client-side web development, APIs, storage, data pipelines)
• Ability to multiply the team’s impact using effective leadership principles
• Excellent judgment and proactive XFN collaboration to drive the highest overall product and technical impact
• Experience with Django or with a similar web framework
• Deep understanding of relational databases, such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and impact of our application - be responsible for consistently delivering iterations to existing modules, as well as building new modules
• Work with Engineering Leadership to align on product roadmaps, specifications, and priorities
• Strive to minimize bugs and optimize performance to ensure a smooth and fast user experience
• Evolve the architecture to maintain velocity of shipping visible changes
• Manage and grow our Squad(s), actively participate in the recruiting and retention of team members
• Actively contribute to Stellar’s Engineering Culture and ensure direct reports are writing clear and concise production code for the Stellar Health Platform
• Provide effective and constructive feedback by reviewing others’ work
• Set consistent standards for code; testing and fixing bugs throughout the process and managing your team to do the same

Preferred Qualifications

• You are excited about a role that asks you to lead by example
• You thrive in servant leadership roles and want to support your direct reports
• You have the ability to wear many hats and no job is too small for you
• You get things done and you love working in a dynamic environment; we move quickly and we need a teammate who will too
• You understand, appreciate, and enjoy the responsibility and accountability that comes with being assigned high-level ownership over projects and their success
• You have a knack for explaining technical processes concisely (even to non-engineers), and work well with cross-functional internal teams
• You are looking to learn and grow, knowing that this position will involve a lot of ambiguity to deal with, with the support from the organization to help you navigate it

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Universal Paid Family Leave
• Company sponsored One Medical memberships and Citibike memberships
• Medical Travel Benefits
• A monthly wellness stipend that gives employees the freedom to choose where they spend their cash, whether it be on wellness, pet care, childcare, WFH items, or charitable donations
• Stock Options & a 401k matching program
• Career development opportunities like Manager Training, coaching, and an internal mobility program
• A broad calendar of company sponsored social events that for our in-office and remote employees
• The salary range for this role is $220,000 - $255,000 and will be eligible for performance based variable compensation