Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Lead Platform

Summary

Join A Place for Mom as a Senior Manager to lead and elevate engineering teams across Lead Platform products. This role involves building robust lead platform capabilities, ensuring efficient lead management and processing. You will be a strategic driver and tactical executor, working with a team to build scalable solutions. The ideal candidate is an outcome-oriented, technology-focused people leader with experience building and managing high-performance teams. You will partner with other directors and tech leads, provide team coaching, and develop a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

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 Node/TypeScript
• Strong understanding of project management software, preferably Jira
• Strong understanding of metrics and analytics to guide data driven decisions
• 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
• A proven ability to navigate ambiguity, define direction, and align teams around team goals
• Experience working in Agile environments, with a strong grasp of SDLC and continuous delivery
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills—you inspire trust, create clarity, and drive change

Responsibilities

• 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 coaching, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success
• Responsible for the team’s 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
• 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
• Influence culture and team norms—helping the Lead Platform organization mature its engineering and delivery practices with empathy, curiosity, and grit

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with AI-driven development

Benefits

• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off