Manager, Engineering - Mobile Applications

Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager at Premera, you will lead a team of mobile engineers responsible for architecting, delivering, and supporting high-quality mobile applications that serve both our customers and internal users. You will combine strong people leadership with technical depth to drive reliable, secure, and customer-centric mobile solutions in a regulated healthcare environment.

This is a hybrid role, located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.

What You'll Do

• Hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team of mobile engineers delivering iOS and Android applications built with React Native, aligned to both short- and long-term business goals.
• Own delivery and operational excellence for consumer-facing and internal mobile applications, with accountability for reliability, performance, security, and user experience.
• Guide the team across the full mobile application lifecycle, from ideation and design through development, testing, release, and ongoing support.
• Mature Mobile DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, secure code scanning, and app store release automation.
• Champion modern mobile engineering practices such as component-based architecture, automated testing, configuration as code, and consistent release processes to improve quality and time to market.
• Lead with a strong customer focus, ensuring mobile experiences are intuitive, accessible, performant, and aligned to user needs across platforms.
• Drive data-driven culture using mobile telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, and operational metrics.
• Partner closely with Product, UX, Solution Architecture, Security, Platform, and Operations teams to align priorities and deliver outcomes.
• Identify and execute technical priorities including platform upgrades, dependency management, OS compatibility, and technical debt reduction.
• Act as a technical and business leader, contributing to vendor selection, RFPs, and vendor management related to mobile platforms and tooling.
• Ensure adherence to Premera's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile practices, and engineering standards, with a strong emphasis on security, privacy, and compliance.
• This role does not require day-to-day coding but does require strong technical depth to guide and step into a sprint to unblock the team with pull request reviews, comments, suggestions and helping reach delivery, and own engineering decisions.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or 4 years of equivalent experience in information technology.
• 6+ years of experience in application development or engineering, including prior team or program leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience delivering mobile applications using React Native.
• Production experience building and supporting iOS and Android applications, including app store publishing and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, mobile architecture patterns, and state management.
• Experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and cloud-based services.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud acceptable).
• Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and release management.
• Experience working in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience partnering with security, architecture, and infrastructure teams.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Deep expertise in mobile application architecture, including React Native, performance optimization, and cross-platform tradeoffs, having successfully launched applications on both iOS and Android stores.
• Hands-on experience building and operating applications in cloud and hybrid environments, leveraging public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google) and modern hosting models (PaaS, IaaS, containers).
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices, with experience implementing CI/CD and secure delivery pipelines.
• Proven ability to use metrics and analytics to inform technical decisions and drive business outcomes.
• Experience delivering customer-centric products in an Agile environment, partnering closely with product, UX, solution architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in planning, prioritization, and execution, balancing workloads while delivering high-quality results.
• Proven capability to manage budgets, vendors, and partners effectively.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, able to operate across teams and at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build, retain, and scale high-performing engineering teams

Premera Total Rewards

Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
• Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
• Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.
• Generous paid time off to reenergize.
• Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.

• Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
• Free convenient on-site parking.
• Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
• Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.
• Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
• Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.

National Plus Salary Range:

$135,600.00 - $230,500.00

*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.

We're happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We're committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.