Manager, Software Engineering

About this role

At Zelis, we Get Stuff Done. So, let’s get to it!     A Little About Us   Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.    A Little About You   You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview A Little About Us Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients. At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.

A Little About You You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview The Manager, Software Engineering leads the engineering team behind the Cost Engine. A core API and backend service that standardizes and serves healthcare procedure cost, negotiated rate, member, eligibility, benefit, treatment, provider, and incentive data to downstream products. This is a player-coach role. You will spend a meaningful share of your time writing and reviewing code alongside your engineers, and the remainder leading, developing, and unblocking the team. You own both the technical health of the platform and the growth of the people building it. You partner closely with the Product Managers, scrum masters, and architecture for member cost and transparency to turn the roadmap into shipped, reliable software.

What You'll Do Lead and Grow the Team • Directly manage, coach, and develop the team through regular 1:1s, feedback, and career-growth conversations.

• Own hiring, promotion input, and pay and performance decisions for your team, in line with company practice.

• Set technical direction in partnership with architecture, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.

Build and Ship • Write and review production code across the .NET 8 REST APIs, C# services, and the ETL and data-movement estate. This is a hands-on role, not management-only.

• Set and uphold engineering standards, raising the bar on code quality, testing, and observability.

• Take on the complex and higher-risk technical work directly, from architecture decisions to thorny production issues and cross-cutting migrations.

Run the Delivery • Partner with the Scrum Master to run agile ceremonies and keep delivery predictable across planning cycles.

• Translate the product roadmap into sequenced, well-scoped engineering work; manage dependencies, surface risks early, and remove blockers.

• Balance run-vs-change, keeping the platform healthy (security, reliability, and maintenance work) while still moving the roadmap forward.

Drive Technical Direction • Guide the platform's modernization: clearer service boundaries, ETL modernization in Rust, stronger observability, and legacy endpoint deprecation.

• Contribute to the longer-term roadmap for the platform's technical health, and use AI strategically to boost the team's productivity.

Communicate and Collaborate • Communicate progress, delivery risk, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Partner closely with the Product Manager for member cost and transparency to turn strategy into shipped, reliable software.

What You’ll Bring: Required • 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong, current hands-on coding ability — this role writes and reviews code, it does not only manage. (Typically a Bachelor's + 8 years or a Master's + 6)

• People leadership experience - managing, coaching, and developing engineers, including performance and growth conversations.

• Depth in C# / .NET building and operating production REST APIs and backend services.

• Experience with relational data stores (SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL) and cloud-hosted services on AWS.

• Comfort operating in

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