LifeStance Health

Sr. Manager, Software

USA-Remote · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$157k-$195kDetected 30 days ago

TypeScriptReactNode.jsAWSIncident ResponseComplianceStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

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.
Success is measured by consistent delivery against commitments, healthy team execution, stable production services, and a measurable lift in engineering discipline and operational maturity.

Lead execution and delivery for one or more product areas, ensuring commitments are met with high quality (30%)
Manage and develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and performance management (15%)
Drive team-level and cross-team projects, including targeted process improvements (15%)
Coordinate with vendors and partners to ensure effective integration and delivery (10%)
Partner with product counterparts to align priorities, scope, and delivery expectations (5%)
Provide technical stewardship across the product area, reviewing architecture, challenging design decisions, and setting standards for code quality, scalability, observability, and operational resilience
Identify workflow inefficiencies and drive targeted process improvements to enhance predictability, quality, and team effectiveness
Support legal and regulatory compliance by identifying risks during execution and ensuring teams follow established policies
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
People leadership and talent development including managing senior engineers and emerging leaders, setting clear performance expectations, and developing high-agency, accountable teams

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
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, talk and hear.
The employee is frequently required to walk.
The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.
Required knowledge and skill sets:

Demonstrated success in technology-forward or digital-first companies strongly preferred

As a full-time employee of LifeStance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance.
Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.
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.
At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs.
But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.
As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!
LifeStance Health Values

We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture.
LifeStance Health is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
LifeStance is an equal opportunity employer.

This listing is sourced directly from LifeStance Health's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.