Sr. Manager, Software
Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads delivery and operational health across one or more product areas, ensuring engineering execution aligns to LifeStance's product and technology strategy. This leader takes end-to-end accountability for outcomes - planning, sequencing, and balancing delivery, quality, and operational stability across multiple squads. This is a technically credible leadership role.
Responsibilities
Lead execution and delivery for one or more product areas, ensuring commitments are met with high quality (30%)
Plan and sequence work to execute established product and technology strategy within team scope (15%)
Manage and develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and performance management (15%)
Drive team-level and cross-team projects, including targeted process improvements (15%)
Cook up with vendors and partners to ensure effective integration and delivery (10%)
Monitor operational health and execution risks, escalating issues as needed (10%)
Partner with product counterparts to align priorities, scope, and delivery expectations (5%)
Requirements
Bachelor's degree typically required; additional highly related experience may be considered in lieu of the degree
7+ years of software engineering and delivery experience across multiple systems
2+ years of formal supervisory responsibility
5+ years of ownership across team delivery and execution
Demonstrated success in technology-forward or digital-first companies strongly preferred
Required Knowledge And Skill Sets
Technical depth and credibility across modern web and cloud-native systems including React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js services, event-driven and API/microservices architectures, and AWS, sufficient to review architecture, challenge design decisions, and identify performance, reliability, and scalability risks
Multi-squad execution leadership including planning, sequencing, and balancing competing demands, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and driving predictable delivery without creating churn
People leadership and talent development including managing senior engineers and emerging leaders, setting clear performance expectations, and developing high-agency, accountable teams
Execution discipline and continuous improvement with a track record of raising engineering standards, delivery predictability, operational maturity, on-call effectiveness, and incident response rigor
Strong stakeholder communication and influence across product, design, and business partners, with the ability to translate strategy into execution and execution realities back into clear, actionable tradeoffs