Engineering Manager

🕒 September 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

👥 HR Tech

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-09

Healthcare • Insurance • HR Tech

Benepass is a flexible benefits platform designed for people-first companies, offering a range of personalized and adaptable employee benefits solutions. With a focus on meeting the diverse needs of today’s global workforce, Benepass allows companies to provide customized benefits packages that include health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, wellness programs, professional development, and more. The platform emphasizes ease of use with features like card-first technology, automated enrollment, and real-time engagement metrics. Benepass supports companies in designing competitive benefits programs that enhance employee satisfaction and retention while staying aligned with corporate DEI and wellness values.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of backend engineers on Core Services, including the ledger, decisioning, schedules, rules engine, HRIS integrations, authentication, and directory • Report to the Vice President of Engineering and share Core Services leadership with a peer Engineering Manager • Own people management, team execution, and outcomes • Manage approximately 4–6 engineers initially, with room to hire as the company grows • Run growth-focused 1:1s, set expectations, provide feedback, hire, onboard, and level engineers • Coach project leads and support project kickoffs, technical approaches, updates, and releases • Translate company priorities into sequenced plans and make explicit scope/timeline tradeoffs • Protect operational capacity for production health, incidents, and correctness work • Lead design reviews and champion simple, correct, observable systems • Contribute code, prototypes, and production debugging when needed, then step back • Maintain invariants for idempotency, auditability, reconciliation, and safe retries • Partner with Client Apps, Platform, Customer Engineering, Product, and Ops • Document decisions, surface risks early, and support empowered project teams • Use AI heavily in coding, debugging, design, planning, writing, analysis, 1:1 preparation, hiring, and communication • Attend company-wide onsite events three times per year

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience • 2+ years leading teams of approximately 3–8 engineers (or equivalent scope) • Deep software engineering experience in Python/Django or equivalent backend systems • Ability to lead design reviews, enforce engineering standards, and prototype in Python/Django or comparable backend stack • Experience with systems where correctness and reliability are critical • Experience mentoring engineers through 1:1s and setting growth goals against a leveling matrix • Experience handling performance issues directly and hiring • Track record of shipping commitments, creating clarity from ambiguity, and running a healthy SDLC • Heavy personal use of AI for coding, debugging, planning, writing, and operating a team • Ability to review and own AI-assisted output • Experience with Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker • U.S.-based and able to address U.S. employment visa sponsorship questions

🏖️ Benefits

• 95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision • $250 WFH setup (one time) • $500/year Learning & Development Benefit • $150/month cell phone + internet • $100/month Wellness • $100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit • Several team onsites a year • Flexible PTO • Equity

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