Blue Shield Of California

Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield Of California$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 4 additional years in a relevant field.
  • 7+ years in software engineering or related technology disciplines.
  • 2+ years of management or team leadership experience.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and backlog management.
  • Technical fluency across modern engineering practices like cloud-native development and CI/CD.
  • Familiarity with modern frameworks and coding tools preferred.
  • Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an engineering team to deliver secure and scalable technology solutions.
  • Oversee execution from planning to release, managing risks and stakeholder updates.
  • Manage recruiting, onboarding, and team performance to meet capacity needs.
  • Guide teams in addressing complex architectural and operational challenges.
  • Collaborate with various stakeholders to prioritize and deliver aligned work.
  • Support engineers in designing cloud-ready and maintainable solutions.
  • Help resolve delivery blockers and escalate issues when necessary.
  • Monitor team performance using KPIs and metrics to drive continuous improvement.
  • Promote modern engineering practices and foster a culture of accountability and collaboration.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model with in-office collaboration two days a week.
  • Opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
  • Dynamic environment focused on modern engineering practices.
  • Emphasis on continuous learning and professional growth.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Manager, Engineering oversees a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures teams have the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Managers are expected to be strong people and execution leaders with enough technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align priorities, remove obstacles, and drive outcomes that support Stellarus' mission and evolving technology strategy.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering secure, scalable, reliable technology solutions.
  • Oversee delivery execution from planning through release, including team capacity, sequencing, delivery status, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder updates.
  • Manage staffing, recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and day-to-day team operations to ensure the team has the right talent and capacity to meet delivery needs.
  • Guide senior technical talent in resolving complex delivery, architecture, reliability, security, scalability, integration, and operational issues.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Platform, QA, and business stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and deliver work aligned to business and product goals.
  • Support engineers in designing and delivering scalable, secure, cloud-ready solutions, while ensuring appropriate technical review, standards alignment, and decision-making discipline.
  • Help resolve delivery blockers, technical issues, risks, and dependencies, escalating when needed and coordinating across teams to keep delivery moving.
  • Monitor delivery health, quality, reliability, operational performance, and team effectiveness through KPIs, Agile metrics, and continuous improvement practices.
  • Promote modern engineering practices, including secure development, CI/CD, cloud-native approaches, automation, testability, maintainability, observability, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
  • Ensure team solutions are reliable, maintainable, secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards, architectural patterns, and operational expectations.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, engineering pragmatism, continuous learning, and clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • 7 years of experience in software engineering, full stack development, platform engineering, technical delivery, infrastructure engineering, or related technology disciplines.
  • 2 years of prior management, team leadership, supervisor, project/program management, or equivalent people leadership experience.
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery models, backlog management, technical scope management, risk management, prioritization, coaching, and delegation.
  • Technical fluency across modern engineering practices such as cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, version control, secure development, system integrations, data models, and maintainable code.
  • Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks, backend services, APIs, SQL and/or NoSQL databases, RESTful integrations, cloud platforms, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-assisted coding tools preferred.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, Architecture, vendor, and business teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience operating in regulated, healthcare, enterprise, or complex technology environments preferred.


Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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