Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Guild as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering and lead the development of a new Claims domain, transforming benefit utilization, estimated spend, and financial forecasting. This pivotal role involves coaching Engineering Managers and senior ICs, aligning teams with strategic goals, and ensuring scalable growth. You will guide staffing, resource planning, and technical direction, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. Collaborate across teams and organizational boundaries, influencing Guild-wide initiatives and representing engineering in high-level discussions. Provide high-impact technical guidance, overseeing multiple engineering domains and partnering with leadership to define technical and product roadmaps. This position offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary of $200,000 - $245,000 and stock options.

Requirements

• Demonstrated history of technical leadership across both people and systems
• Leading Staff+ engineers
• Leading multiple teams
• Demonstrated history of strong partnerships with product, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful results for an organization
• Demonstrated history of growing individual contributors and leaders

Responsibilities

• Excel at team leadership
• Lead, mentor, and develop ICs and Engineering Managers, ensuring teams have clear growth paths, strong leadership, and alignment with business needs
• Structure and organize teams effectively, optimizing staffing, skill distribution, and capacity planning to meet company priorities
• Actively shape engineering culture, championing continuous improvement, diversity, and technical excellence across teams
• Foster a culture of urgency and strategic prioritization, ensuring engineering efforts align with business goals and long-term vision
• Create contingency plans and adapt to shifting business needs, guiding teams through change and uncertainty with clarity and confidence
• Work across teams and pillars to drive multi-team objectives, ensuring clarity in planning and fostering collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Influence Guild-wide initiatives, working with executive leadership to shape organizational engineering strategy and cross-functional decision-making
• Represent engineering in high-level discussions, serving as a proxy for the Director of Engineering in key collaborations with business stakeholders
• Build and strengthen relationships across the organization to foster a collaborative environment for addressing complex, multi-disciplinary challenges
• Meet with external partners and vendors to evaluate new technologies and ensure strategic integration into Guild’s platform
• Oversee multiple engineering domains, driving cross-team initiatives, scalability improvements, and major technical investments
• Partner with leadership to define technical and product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals while balancing innovation and operational efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Organizational navigation & influence
• Managing managers - evolving how they assess and coach managers vs ICs

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth