Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary

Join A Place for Mom as a Senior Manager for our Home Care Engineering Team! Lead a high-performing team of full-stack developers and QA engineers, building and maintaining our frontend and backend infrastructure. Collaborate with product partners and executive stakeholders to identify and implement innovative technical solutions. Drive revenue growth through high-impact projects and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and experience managing high-performing engineering teams. The ideal candidate is an outcome-oriented, technology-focused people leader with a proven track record of success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or 3 years of equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience working on or managing high performance engineering teams, preferably developers and QA engineers in a combined team
• Experience leading teams developing modern, high traffic applications and backend services, preferably using .NET Core
• Experience practicing modern software development methodologies: Agile, Scrum, XP, etc. with a clear focus on outcome oriented delivery, security, performance & maintainability
• Strong organizational and communication skills with experience developing & instilling a culture of product ownership
• Strong understanding of project management software, preferably Jira
• Strong understanding of metrics and analytics to guide data driven decisions
• Understanding of CRM capabilities and functionality, preferably with Salesforce
• Understanding of API architecture including REST and GraphQL
• Understanding of data collection and storage methodologies and tools like MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Elasticsearch
• Understanding of AWS Services, Docker Containers, and CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Home Care engineering team, providing strategic direction, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, establishing the frameworks for managing, executing work, communicating progress, and directing the activities of your team
• Collaborate with Product partners and Executive-level stakeholders to identify and understand business opportunities, present innovative technical solutions, and lead your team in executing high-impact projects that drive revenue growth
• Encourage your team to experiment and innovate with new technologies, build proof of concept, and present the results to your peers and leadership across the Tech organization
• Partner with other directors and tech leads across Tech to understand cross-team dependencies, validate feature proposals, and drive system improvements
• Provide the team with the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success
• Responsible for the Home Care technical strategy and roadmap - driving towards business outcomes and tracking success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering Managers, Product Partners, and stakeholders and aligning work to achieving those metrics
• Champion whole team quality approach guiding your team on accountability and growth opportunities on roadmap deliverables
• Professionally develop engineers on your team by helping them build and execute personal development plans that map to our organization goals. Aggressively recruit and hire talented engineers
• Work closely with Product Partners and Stakeholders to ensure that the company objectives are met on time while simultaneously balancing necessary engineering requirements and influencing the overall technical direction and user experience of our website

Benefits

• Base Salary: $150,000 to $170,000 + 20% Bonus
• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off