Senior Manager, Software Engineering (HQ)

Role Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow high-performing teams of fullstack, frontend, and backend engineers.
• Recruit exceptional talent while building an environment that promotes mentorship, ownership, and long-term retention.
• Partner with Principal Engineers and Architects to design, build, and maintain highly scalable, cloud-native backend services and performant frontend architectures capable of processing real-time video and IoT data streams.
• Work closely with Product Management and Product Design (UX/UI) to translate user needs into intuitive, high-quality interfaces and seamless end-to-end customer workflows.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps and execution plans, balancing near-term feature delivery with long-term architectural health and scalability.
• Establish and champion modern software engineering practices, including comprehensive testing, robust CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and proactive application performance monitoring.
• Oversee the development of secure, efficient, and well-documented APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) that seamlessly connect our cloud-based user platforms with edge devices and downstream AI services.
• Continually optimize internal development workflows, tools, and environments to maximize developer productivity, minimize friction, and accelerate delivery cycles.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, AI/ML, and Hardware teams to ensure cohesive integration across the entire LVT product ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years of directly managing and growing fullstack or product-focused engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Strong technical foundation with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript) and robust backend ecosystems (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js).
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available cloud-native architectures (preferably AWS) that support high-throughput data, streaming, or large-scale IoT integrations.
• A deep understanding of modern API patterns, state management, and asynchronous data flows.
• Demonstrated success hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers across various career levels, fostering a culture of psychological safety, high performance, and continuous learning.
• Ability to balance commercial and business urgency with technical debt, engineering capacity, and architectural scalability.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage.
• Retail benefits (401k match up to 4%).
• Flexible PTO.