Manager, Software Development Engineering

About the role

Labcorp is a global leader in diagnostic testing and drug development solutions, helping healthcare providers, researchers, and patients make informed decisions that advance care. Join us in our mission to improve health and improve lives.

Work Schedule

This is a full-time, exempt (salaried) position assigned to a First Shift schedule, with standard business hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in your local time zone. Business needs may occasionally require flexibility in work hours, including earlier, later, or additional hours, with reasonable notice provided when possible.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers across multiple levels (staff, senior, mid-level, and junior), fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Own the technical roadmap for clinical content management systems, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and clinical/reporting needs
• Partner with product management, clinical content authors, medical/clinical affairs, and reporting stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and deliver impactful solutions
• Drive the design and delivery of tools that define, store, and provide meaningful clinical content, including knowledge, templates, and report components, to support accurate and consistent diagnostic report generation
• Oversee development and maintenance of systems that manage the clinical content lifecycle, including authoring, versioning, review and approval workflows, publishing, and content quality metrics
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, processes, and best practices across the team, including code review, testing, CI/CD, and incident response
• Manage team capacity, hiring, performance reviews, career development, and succession planning
• Drive architectural decisions that scale the storage, delivery, and governance of clinical content to support growing reporting and product needs
• Champion automation of content assembly, template management, and report generation
• Support test content and report template development initiatives through effective resource allocation and technical guidance
• Communicate technical strategy, progress, and risks to senior leadership and cross-functional partners
• Define and evolve the team's processes and governance for applying AI and LLM tools to clinical content management workflows, ensuring responsible use aligned with clinical accuracy and regulatory requirements
• Remove blockers, manage dependencies across teams, and ensure timely delivery of commitments

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 or more years of related professional software engineering experience
• 2 or more years in a technical leadership role (team lead, tech lead, or management)
• 2 or more years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• 5 or more years of experience and technical foundation in Python, relational databases, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and modern web development frameworks
• 5 or more years of demonstrated experience delivering complex software systems using RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines
• 2 or more years' experience managing teams working with front-end technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• 3 or more years' experience setting priorities and driving execution across concurrent workstreams
• 2 or more years' experience building and developing engineering teams across multiple experience levels

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 3 or more years' related professional software engineering experience
• 3 or more years of engineering management experience, including managing senior engineers
• 5 or more years' experience with content management systems, structured content platforms, or document/template management systems
• 5 or more years' experience with content authoring workflows, versioning and approval governance, structured document formats (e.g., XML, DITA), and publishing pipelines
• 5 or more years' experience delivering software in regulated or clinical/healthcare environments

Additional Job Standards

• Ability to set priorities and drive execution across concurrent workstreams
• Track record of building and developing engineering teams across multiple experience levels
• Familiarity with clinical content management and the diagnostic reporting landscape
• Experience translating clinical content and reporting needs into information solutions and engineering plans
• Experience managing teams in regulated or clinical environments
• Owns and delivers product or platform goals for the team, setting a high standard for technical outcomes, team health, and delivery
• Contributes to the vision, scope, and technical approach for significant projects impacting the team and its partners
• Identifies, prioritizes, and drives solutions to ambiguous, open-ended problems, empowering the team to deliver with autonomy
• Partners with adjacent teams to align roadmaps and achieve shared business goals
• Serves as a role model for engineering leadership, balancing technical depth with people management
• Effective verbal and written communicator with both clinical and non-clinical audiences, including senior leadership
• Cultivates a team culture that leverages modern tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar LLM tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation
• Builds an inclusive, psychologically safe team environment that attracts and retains top engineering talent

Pay

Pay Range: $140,000 - $200,000 annually. All job offers will be based on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data. The position is also eligible for an annual bonus under the Labcorp Bonus Plan. Bonuses are payable based on corporate and/or business segment performance and are subject to individual performance modifiers.

Benefits

Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours, Casual, Intern, and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan. Employees who are regularly scheduled to work a 7 on 7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO.