Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Who we are

Jellyvision ALEX®, is on a mission to improve lives by helping people choose and use their benefits. We are raising the bar—for benefits and the employee experience (for our employees and those of the customers we serve) – by scaling personalization, compassion and an earnest intent to be helpful in all that we do. 

Jellyvision people are a group of creative problem solvers who use good judgment, give each other honest feedback, engage in real debate, and snack frequently. We are curious, hungry, and humble—because we know this is how we’ll continue to make an impact. We’re kind, biased towards action, and sweat the details to create great experiences for those we serve.  

We are an inclusive, human-first workplace. Respect and trust for each other are foundational, and our equitable total rewards offerings support the lives and holistic well-being of our unique people. At Jellyvision, expect career experiences that challenge you, empower you to have a direct impact on our mission, and enable you to learn, try, and do while having fun along the way.  

What’s the role?

The Software Engineering Manager will be leading a talented development team and accountable for successful delivery on the product roadmap. You’ll prioritize and break down work, and organize the team to do the work efficiently with high quality. You’ll remove impediments, coach your team, and help them grow. An Engineering Manager supports cross-functional product teams and serves as the Agile Owner for each of those product teams. 

What you’ll do to be successful 

1.) Lead by example and drive engineering best practices

• Directly manage a team of onshore and offshore software engineers
• Lead an iterative approach to developing software that continuously delivers added value to the market in line with roadmap milestones
• Organize and assign work across the team. Break down the work into appropriate sizes to maximize efficiency   
• Balance feature work with maintenance, tech debt, and internal support tasks
• Direct the work of Software Engineers to ensure best practices around software development and act as a coach, mentoring team members to improve their skills and design stellar projects

2.) Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders

• Manage the logistics of the team; from people management, performance management, hiring and right-sizing to training and promoting to enforcing deadlines
• In partnership with the Product Owner, ensures that products are being designed, developed and tested with high quality standards and in alignment with the architecture vision
• Ensure project milestones, goals, and measures for success are met
• Provide proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments and progress
• Drive operational excellence via collecting and sharing team metrics to drive continuous improvement (DORA, complying/meeting application SLIs, driver of CI/CD, team's security vulnerabilities, infra cost/usage tracking, monitors and alerts)
• Proactively mitigate risks, escalate issues when necessary, and collaborate with other internal teams and stakeholders to find solutions

Experience & skills you’ll need

• Deep understanding of how large scale software systems are designed, built, tested, deployed and into the hands of customers
• Experience in using delivery and performance metrics to drive a team
• At least 2 years of experience managing offshore development teams using common Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
• An affinity for modern software development best practices like daily deployments, robust and efficient CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, feature flagging, etc.
• Strong decision-making skills that allow teams to take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
• Demonstrated advanced ability to operate using analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and project management skills
• Experience with following or similar:: Snowflake, Looker, Datadog, cloud formats like AWS, and Infrastructure as Code
• Exceptional leadership skills; knows how to co-create a vision, reinforce it, and align teams, stakeholders, and an organization around it

The Details 

• Location: Remote 
• Starting Salary: $164,000-$200,000

What Jellyvision will give you

• Check out our benefits here!

Jellyvision is committed to continuous evolution and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is welcomed, valued, and respected. It doesn’t matter your race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, country of origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), criminal histories consistent with legal requirements or any other basis protected by law...we just want amazing people who are willing to grow along with us.

Although we have a Chicago-based HQ that employees are welcome to work out of whether they’re local or just visiting, this position is also eligible for work by a remote employee out of CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA or WI.