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Senior Engineering Manager, Java

🕒 September 18

🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +29 more states – Remote

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💵 $135.9k - $153k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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First seen by Remote Rocketship September 18

Still open on Nava's site. Checked 9 hours ago.

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Nava

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Nava is a public-benefit technology company that designs, builds, and operates modern digital services and open-source software for federal, state, and local government agencies. Nava focuses on improving public benefit delivery—such as unemployment insurance, SNAP, Medicaid, grants, and veteran services—by creating human-centered, resilient systems that scale to millions of users and reduce manual work for government staff. The company also develops tools and pilots AI-enabled solutions to streamline verification and program administration while partnering with agencies to modernize legacy infrastructure and improve outcomes for beneficiaries.

📋 Description

• Manage the career growth of direct reports through guidance, relevant feedback, and appropriate compensation • Serve as a technical contributor, individual contributor, or technical lead • Write code and perform code reviews • Write and review technical specifications • Collaborate with cross-functional product teams to identify and mitigate technical risks • Guide engineering planning, estimation, prioritization, trade-offs, technical debt, and project milestones • Review architecture and designs from other project teams • Design technical roadmaps • Propose and enforce technical architecture • Maintain production systems • Handle on-call duties and systematically debug and resolve issues • Work on business development bids • Participate in client stakeholder meetings related to growth • Gain government-stakeholder buy-in for technical initiatives • Strategize with leadership on growing projects • Attend conferences and network with potential clients • Review strategy plans and outline technical requirements for potential work

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium- to large-scale systems on cloud platforms • 1 or more years of experience as a People Manager • Experience designing and implementing production-grade, cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and containerized deployment patterns • Experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres, using JDBC and ORM mappers such as Hibernate • Experience with DevOps, preferably Jenkins CI/CD • Experience using AWS cloud-native services and data engineering • Legal authorization to work in the United States • Ability to meet other requirements for applicable government contracts • Work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future • May be subject to a government background check or security clearance depending on the contract • Tenacity to investigate problems and iterate on working code • Resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented • Ability to think strategically about trade-offs and short-term versus long-term benefits • Adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Prior experience working with stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans • Disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost • Vacation, holidays including Juneteenth, and floating holidays • 12 paid federal holidays each year in addition to regular PTO • Performance-based annual bonus when Nava meets its goals • Paid parental leave • Weekly meals delivered to new parents' homes • Wellness program with physical, mental, and emotional health resources • Virtual doctor visits with no copay, depending on available providers • Sabbatical leave after continuous service • 401(k) match of 4% of salary • Remote-first flexible work environment • Company laptop and home office setup assistance • Monthly reimbursement for eligible home office utility expenses • Internal training programs and professional development resources • LinkedIn Learning access and annual allowance for courses, tuition, and certifications • Referral bonus • Pre-tax commuter benefits when applicable • Collaborative and remote-friendly team environment

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