Software Engineering Manager

Position Summary:

The Software Engineer Manager will lead a small team (offshore/onshore), delegate work to team of engineers and willing to be a hands-on developer and an individual contributor with an architectural and technical design mindset for a core piece of our platform product. This position will be part of a cross-functional, largely autonomous product engineering team, collaborating with other engineers, designers and the product managers to scale our cloud-based web platform. The individual in this position will be required to manage, guide and mentor other less experienced engineers on both their team and across our company. Accountable for the design, architecture, quality, and measurability of the systems. This role requires a blend of leadership skills, technical expertise, and a significant experience in design and development of microservices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify, conceive, and deliver without supervision, with complete latitude for independent judgment.
• Analyze and decompose the existing client-server applications and identify services that can be migrated to a microservice architecture.
• Partner with engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and leverage most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those needs
• Build infrastructure to handle millions of transactions and secure, sensitive health data
• Design and architect software capable of reaching millions of users
• Write modular, secure, and well-tested code
• Ensure our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams
• Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
• Conduct performance reviews.
• Mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as and when needed
• Take product operational responsibility set measurable goals, and meet them
• Manage technical debt, ensure code quality and participate in code reviews
• Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability
• Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team, and look for opportunities to improve them

Education/Experience/Competencies:

• BS (or higher, g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience
• Experience managing a team both onshore/offshore
• Experience migrating client-server architecture to microservices architecture and a good working knowledge of message queuing systems. 
• 10+ years of work-related industry experience developing high-performance web applications in C#/ .NET
• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems design
• 3 + years of hands on experience in design and development of microservices and Restful API's.
• Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning
• Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, WebAPI, IIS
• Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience
• Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with a user mindset
• A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
• Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway or with a different cloud provider and similar services
• Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion
• Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model
• Proven analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience and familiarity with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, DocumentDB required
• Experience with specific technologies such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) required.

Salary Range: $175,000 - $200,000