Sr Mgr Software Engineering

HealthEquity is on a mission to save and improve lives by empowering healthcare consumers. The Sr Manager Software Engineering is responsible for leading multiple cross-functional teams in all aspects of the software development life cycle, ensuring quality and efficiency while managing personnel actions for direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Manages and carries out the personnel actions for direct reports, including but not limited to hiring and scheduling; training and evaluating; coaching and managing performance; making salary, merit, or other compensation recommendations for team of direct reports; and making recommendations and/or taking corrective or disciplinary action as appropriate
• Lead systems design, architecture, and scaling discussions. Own the development and sustainment of your team’s applications and tech infrastructure
• Develop, monitor, and drive key metrics demonstrating health and performance for your team’s software. Drive process and quality of service improvements
• Manage the agile development process and methodology to maximize value for your stakeholders and our business, with a high degree of precision and quality
• Partners with executive leadership and other departments, influencing broader business strategies and operational planning
• Maintain a level of technical proficiency and currency with new and developing technology in the software engineering field by participating with and maintaining memberships with professional work groups, attending trainings, seminars, or other technical-related conferences or seminars; interfacing with piers; or reading trade periodicals or journals
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Software architecture, development, testing, and support or closely related field as normally obtained through the completion of a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, and/or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years managing multiple teams or larger, complex team. Experience includes enterprise level application platforms utilizing various software development, product solution design, development, testing, and release cycles utilizing SDLC practices
• A strong collaborative mindset enabling you to work closely with your peers in Product Management, Agile Center of Excellence, etc. to bring diverse viewpoints and goals together
• In depth experience with mobile and web application development in a multi-tenant environment
• A strong drive for innovation and improvement - always pushing, encouraging and enabling your team to improve their tools, processes and culture, keeping them agile and innovative with lightweight processes
• Ability to lead, and mentor team members towards implementing varying levels of software and system level design patterns and principles, including BDD (Behavioral Driven Design), DDD (Domain Driven Design), and TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Demonstrated ability to hire, motivate, grow, empower, and performance manage, with proven ability to inspire team members and to drive positive change throughout the organization
• Excellent communication and organization skills, and the ability to effectively prioritize work, set expectations with stakeholders, communicate progress, negotiate dependencies, and resolve conflicts
• Experienced leading distributed and remote agile teams
• High quality standards, holding yourself and your team accountable for delivering Enterprise-quality software that delights customers and maximizes value for the company
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum, Kanban and DevOps software development methodologies
• Work requires normal range of hearing, vision and verbal communication skills, with or without a reasonable accommodation
• Must be able to use a telephone or headset equipment and operate a keyboard and other office equipment, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Must be able to spend prolonged periods of each workday on the phone
• The ability to perform work at a computer station for 6-8+ hours a day and function in an environment with frequent interruptions is required
• Must be able to lift and move material weighing up to 20 lbs
• May experience elevated levels of stress during periods of increased activity and with work entailing multiple deadlines