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Senior Engineering Manager

Alaffia Health · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time

About the role

This position requires current authorization to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to sponsor work visas at this time.

What You'll Do

  • Team Leadership & Growth - Hire, retain, and develop a high-performing team of senior fullstack engineers, running effective 1:1s, performance reviews, and growth conversations while building a collaborative engineering culture with strong code review standards. Identify skill, process, and tooling gaps before they become blockers, and create an environment where engineers do their best work and grow their careers.
  • Technical Direction - Partner with engineers on architectural decisions that enable scalability, maintainability, and extensibility, while maintaining a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, and operational readiness. Stay technically engaged enough to challenge assumptions, review designs, and unblock engineers — without micromanaging execution.
  • Cross-functional Execution - Collaborate with Product, UX, AI, and Business teams to translate strategy into well-scoped engineering plans, owning delivery from planning through launch including dependency management and risk mitigation. Represent engineering in leadership discussions and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders on timelines, tradeoffs, and progress.
  • Process & Culture - Continuously improve developer efficiency through better tooling, documentation, and process, and champion best practices in observability, testing, and rollout strategy. Foster a culture of learning, pragmatic decision-making, and shipping with quality.

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role leading senior engineers.
  • Strong technical background in fullstack development: hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Next.js or comparable modern stacks.
  • Experience building and shipping SaaS products at a SaaS company, with a strong understanding of the product development lifecycle in that context.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams delivering complex, user-facing products in a production environment.
  • Experience managing in a high-growth startup environment.
  • A track record of hiring and developing strong engineers and building healthy, high-performing teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (i.e. you can translate between technical and business contexts with ease).
  • Strong judgment on technical tradeoffs, architectural decisions, and when to move fast vs. slow down to get things right.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in healthcare technology or other regulated industries (HIPAA familiarity a plus).
  • Familiarity with AI/ML product development and deploying LLM-powered user-facing features.
  • Experience with DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Background as a senior individual contributor before moving into management.

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