Director, Software Engineering (Sales App)

eHealth, Inc. is dedicated to guiding consumers through their health insurance options with transparency and trust. They are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Sales App engineering platform, focusing on developing core technologies and driving innovation while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the vision, strategy and execution of Sales App engineering in partnership with engineering and product leadership
• Define a strategic engineering vision to build a highly scalable, resilient and secure system as we expand our product lines
• Lead technical strategy and drive innovation to ensure eHealth’s platform continues to deliver best-in-class experience
• Grow and expand your team by hiring great talent, mentoring team members and improving engineering quality, productivity and performance
• Instill an inclusive team culture that is passionate, empathetic, and collaborative
• Build operational excellence to achieve goals across multiple product lines

Requirements:

• 10 years+ in Engineering with 6+ years in a significant leadership position
• Strong leader who has managed, hired and grown engineering teams of 20+ team members across multiple geographic locations
• A strong experience building consumer-facing products, building high-performing web experiences
• Experience building highly scalable APIs and Micro-services preferably in AWS
• Experience delivering products in an agile environment
• Ideally this candidate will be based on Pacific Time as they will be working heavily with the team in China with many collaborative meetings 4 pm - 7 pm PT