Engineering Manager
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We’re Spark, a mission-driven company helping independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams. The vast majority of beneficiaries select benefits with the help of an independent broker, but technology and support for brokers is woefully antiquated. We provide workflows and services to help brokers achieve transformative growth.
Job Description
Summary
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Spark is looking to bring on an engineering manager to lead the engineers and technical development within the scalability squad. As we’ve continued to grow, we identified that one of our core challenges is figuring out how to offer our top-tier services and tech platform while doubling our agent base every year. As a leader of this squad, you will build tech to optimize both internal and agent workflows while also tackling technical problems that ensure the quality of our platform.
In this role, you will be involved in all aspects of engineering within the scalability squad. You will work directly with product and design to understand existing services and workflows and find opportunities to optimize them. You will manage and guide software engineers to architect and implement full stack solutions and you will work with engineering leaders to understand and build upon our technical stack to ensure quality and performance. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will collaborate closely with leaders throughout the tech org to ensure that our product development is in line with our business goals.
More about our stack and the role
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- Our current software engineering stack is Python, Django, Celery, Vue, Redis, and Postgres
- We deploy our stack on AWS and use modern development tools for version control, continuous deployment, testing and observability
- This role will be expected to manage 3 engineering team members in 2025
What you’ll do
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- Build and guide the development of new product features focused on scaling our business
- Architect and design elegant technical solutions with a focus on impact
- Review code and specs and guide the technical direction of the team
- Support the development and prioritization of our tech infrastructure roadmap
- Provide mentorship and career coaching to direct reports, meeting individuals where they are
- Balance hands-on work with higher level technical guidance
- Coordinate with product to drive planning, prioritization, and execution of the Scalability roadmap
- Sequence and scope projects to align with business goals
- Manage team processes and productivity to ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects
What we’re looking for
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- 5-8+ years in full stack software engineering in a startup environment
- Strong technical foundation in developing software with Python and Django or similar
- Experience architecting and owning production systems and complex frameworks
- Experience using javascript frameworks such as Vue or React
- 1+ years in leading engineering teams in a management capacity
- Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
- Experience hiring, growing and managing software engineers
- Ability to collaborate directly with product, design, data and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to understand complex business problems and scope and develop elegant technical solutions
- Strong project management, planning and prioritization skills with a focus on delivery
- Strong communication skills
Summary
Spark is looking to bring on an engineering manager to lead the engineers and technical development within the scalability squad. As we’ve continued to grow, we identified that one of our core challenges is figuring out how to offer our top-tier services and tech platform while doubling our agent base every year. As a leader of this squad, you will build tech to optimize both internal and agent workflows while also tackling technical problems that ensure the quality of our platform.
In this role, you will be involved in all aspects of engineering within the scalability squad. You will work directly with product and design to understand existing services and workflows and find opportunities to optimize them. You will manage and guide software engineers to architect and implement full stack solutions and you will work with engineering leaders to understand and build upon our technical stack to ensure quality and performance. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will collaborate closely with leaders throughout the tech org to ensure that our product development is in line with our business goals.
More about our stack and the role
- Our current software engineering stack is Python, Django, Celery, Vue, Redis, and Postgres
- We deploy our stack on AWS and use modern development tools for version control, continuous deployment, testing and observability
- This role will be expected to manage 3 engineering team members in 2025
What you’ll do
- Build and guide the development of new product features focused on scaling our business
- Architect and design elegant technical solutions with a focus on impact
- Review code and specs and guide the technical direction of the team
- Support the development and prioritization of our tech infrastructure roadmap
- Provide mentorship and career coaching to direct reports, meeting individuals where they are
- Balance hands-on work with higher level technical guidance
- Coordinate with product to drive planning, prioritization, and execution of the Scalability roadmap
- Sequence and scope projects to align with business goals
- Manage team processes and productivity to ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects
What we’re looking for
- 5-8+ years in full stack software engineering in a startup environment
- Strong technical foundation in developing software with Python and Django or similar
- Experience architecting and owning production systems and complex frameworks
- Experience using javascript frameworks such as Vue or React
- 1+ years in leading engineering teams in a management capacity
- Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
- Experience hiring, growing and managing software engineers
- Ability to collaborate directly with product, design, data and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to understand complex business problems and scope and develop elegant technical solutions
- Strong project management, planning and prioritization skills with a focus on delivery
- Strong communication skills
