Director, Software Engineering

Join us in creating a better way!

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide consumers through their health insurance and related options when, where, and how they prefer. We’re creating a better way – one that’s transparent and trustworthy for both our consumers externally and our employees internally. 

Move your career forward while connecting countless people to the life- changing, quality care they deserve. Our diverse team of innovators supports one another in solving some of the toughest challenges. We’re always on the lookout for creative opportunities to do right by our customers, and each other. Together, we’re creating a better way to work, united by our common passion to make a difference.

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide our customers through their health insurance needs by matching them with personalized, and affordable health insurance plans. We connect our customers with quality, affordable health insurance through a proprietary marketplace offering Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, individual, employer, and ancillary plans from 200 health insurance carriers nationwide. By doing so, our vision is to be the nation's leading and most trusted source of consumer purchasing of health insurance, ancillary products, and related options on our marketplace.

In this exceptional leadership opportunity, we are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Employer and Individual Health Plans & Sales App engineering platforms. E&I and Sales App businesses are two of the most important for eHealth and critical to the future of the company. Sales App engineering drive a large part of eHealth’s revenue. E&I engineering is an area that eHealth is heavily investing in to completely transform and redesign E&I’s ecommerce experience as well as the service tier.

As we rapidly expand these business lines, this role will be critical to build foundational technologies, new experiences, building teams and grow the engineering organization as whole. This role will partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Sales to bring the next-generation vision to fruition We offer a great deal of autonomy and flexibility to our teams.  If you're a results-oriented, technically confident leader who enjoys working with a lot of freedom, but knows how to take full ownership, collaborate with cross-functional teams and execute with quality, then this is the role you’ve been looking for.

The emergence of technologies like generative AI, natural language processing, and cloud-based contact centers provides an exciting context for a fast-growing company like eHealth. Our proprietary scripted sales and compliance software is the “best in the business” and we are looking to build newer features these new technologies extending eHealth’s significant competitive advantages. When integrated with the company’s online eCommerce platform and its unmatched capabilities in the industry — eHealth is driving toward an omni-channel opportunity of enormous scale. You will lead multiple engineering teams and have a significant impact within our company.

What you will do:

• Lead the vision, strategy and execution of E&I and 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.
• Demonstrate eHealth’s values in your behaviors, practices, and decisions.

What you will bring:

• 10 years+ in Engineering with 5+ 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.

What we offer (benefits):

• Generous benefits include medical, dental and vision beginning on your first day of employment
• 401K with matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase program
• 12 company paid holidays and flexible time off (PTO for non-exempt)

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.

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The base pay range reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The actual base pay offered will depend on various factors including individual skills, experience, performance, qualifications, the department budget, and the location where work is performed. Base pay is one component of eHealth’s total rewards package, which also includes an annual performance bonus, plus an array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness. For more information on our total rewards offerings, please visit our career site.

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Base Pay Range -$192,300 - $256,400

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eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.