Software Engineering Manager
Who we are
Jellyvision is redefining how organizations experience benefits by bringing everything together in one modern, intelligent home. With ALEX Home, we combine our award-winning ALEX® decision support with a flexible benefits administration platform, giving employers and employees a simpler, smarter way to manage benefits year-round.
Our mission is to help organizations reduce complexity, lighten administrative burden, and drive real employee understanding and utilization without forcing rip-and-replace decisions. We meet teams where they are today and give them a clear path to what’s next.
The people behind Jellyvision are creative problem solvers who care deeply about getting it right. We debate ideas, give real feedback, and sweat the details because those details are what turn complicated problems into great experiences for real humans.
We’re a human-first company that trusts smart people to do great work. We value curiosity, kindness, and willingness to try new things, learn fast, and try again. You won’t just show up to do a job, you’ll help build what’s next, solve real problems, and have some fun doing it.
What’s the role?
The Software Engineering Manager grows and develops talented engineers to drive meaningful business outcomes. You'll build an environment where engineers do their best work—clearing obstacles, sharpening skills, and connecting individual contributions to what matters most for the product and our customers. You'll own delivery accountability across your product teams and serve as the Agile Owner, keeping quality high and momentum moving.
What you'll do to be successful
1. Grow engineers and drive technical excellence
- Directly manage a team of software engineers—owning their development, quality bar, and technical direction
- Coach and mentor engineers to sharpen skills, design better systems, and develop sound judgment about when and how to use AI tools effectively
- Organize and assign work alongside the Technical Lead and Product Owner, breaking it into right-sized pieces that maximize efficiency
- Balance feature work with maintenance, tech debt, and internal support
- Set a high bar for technical quality across our JavaScript (React) and Python stack; you're accountable for the team's output
2. Champion AI-augmented engineering
- Model and encourage fluent, responsible use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil
- Help engineers develop sound judgment about AI-generated output—when to trust it, when to push back, and how to prompt effectively
- Stay current on AI tooling; evaluate new tools with a practical, outcomes-focused lens and bring relevant advances to the team
- Identify opportunities for AI to improve team workflows: code review, test generation, documentation, incident analysis
- Contribute to org-wide conversations about AI governance, appropriate use, and engineer skill development
3. Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders
- Handle team logistics: performance management, hiring, right-sizing, training, and promotions
- Partner with the Product Owner to ensure work is designed, developed, and tested to high quality standards and aligned with the architecture vision
- Proactively communicate delivery targets, commitments, and progress
- Drive operational excellence through team metrics (DORA, SLIs, CI/CD health, security vulnerabilities, infra cost/usage)
- Mitigate risks proactively, escalate when needed, and collaborate across teams to find solutions
Experience and skills you'll need
- Deep understanding of how large-scale software systems are designed, built, tested, deployed, and delivered to customers
- Experience using delivery and performance metrics to drive a team
- At least 2 years managing offshore development teams using Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Genuine hands-on familiarity with AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools—you've used them, formed opinions, and helped others use them well
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated code: understanding failure modes, reviewing for correctness and security, and coaching engineers to do the same
- An affinity for modern software development best practices: daily deployments, robust CI/CD, test-driven development, feature flagging, and AI-assisted workflows
- Strong decision-making skills; acts consistently with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
- Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and project management ability
- Experience with tools like Snowflake, Looker, Datadog, AWS, and Infrastructure as Code
- Exceptional leadership skills: co-creates a vision, reinforces it, and aligns teams and stakeholders around it
Core Competencies
- Communicates Effectively
- Cultivates Innovation
- Drives Results
- Leads with Trust
- Mission Focus
- Strategic Mindset
The Details
- Location: Remote
- Starting Salary: $165,000 - $185,000
What Jellyvision will give you
Check out our benefits here!
Jellyvision is committed to continuous evolution and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is welcomed, valued, and respected. It doesn’t matter your race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, country of origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), criminal histories consistent with legal requirements or any other basis protected by law...we just want amazing people who are willing to grow along with us.
Although we have a Chicago-based HQ that employees are welcome to work out of whether they’re local or just visiting, this position is also eligible for work by a remote employee out of CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, NC, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA or WI.