Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Headspace's Paysumer Team as a Software Engineering Manager! You will build a great partner experience, expand access to Headspace, and monetize audiences through D2C and Health Plan channels. This role involves prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of an enterprise platform. You'll lead a team, contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, and work with product and engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of relevant engineering experience and 2+ years of technical management experience. Headspace offers a competitive salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare, and other benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience
• 2+ hands-on technical management experience
• Exceptional system design abilities which include experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Able to use business knowledge to guide the team’s technical decisions
• Strong analytical, problem solving and process improvement skills
• Evaluates existing applications to determine technical changes
• Leading teams through complex multi month projects with clear goals, deliverables, measurements, and milestones
• Excels at software delivery. You are skilled at architecting, testing, monitoring, alerting systems and are excited to apply these principles to your team
• Ability to thrive in a startup (fast-paced, agile) environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to be self-directed when necessary
• Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
• Been actively involved in setting a tooling strategy
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering
• BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems
• Build and lead a team which will help direct the D2C and health plan business
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Work with product and engineering teams to release services that operate at our high scale
• Be an empathetic leader, help your team grow and realize their full potential

Benefits

• Base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, unlimited, free mental health coaching, generous parental leave
• Paid performance incentives