Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eHealth, Inc. is dedicated to guiding consumers through their health insurance options. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead engineering teams focused on developing software applications for financial systems and carrier integration, ensuring timely project delivery and high-quality standards.
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
Skills
- 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 Java backend
- Experience leading multiple projects concurrently
- Past experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team
- Technical skills: Java programming with Spring Boot framework, algorithmic thinking, data structures, Restful APIs, system architecture
- Basic understanding of AWS or other cloud infrastructures
- Experience in working with cross-functional teams such as – product, marketing, partners, security etc
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
- Experience using frontend technologies such as VueJS, ReactJS
- Experience using GraphQL
- Experience with CRM, financial applications and 3rd party enterprise integrations
- Experience with AWS cloud architecture, Postgres DB, Redis cache on AWS
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- An array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness
Company Overview
For nearly 30 years, eHealth has helped millions of Americans find the healthcare coverage that fits their needs at a price they can afford, using data, artificial intelligence and a consumer-first approach to help people quickly and effectively compare insurance options. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://ehealthinsurance.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
eHealth, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2026, 21 in 2025, 22 in 2024, 23 in 2023, 49 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 18 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.