Senior Engineering Manager

Role Description

We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a team of skilled software engineers focused on building the core platform that powers the future of mental health technology at LifeStance.

• Create scalable systems, ensuring seamless interoperability (with a strong focus on FHIR).
• Develop robust microservices that enable secure, real-time data exchange across clinical and operational systems.
• Define technical strategy, cultivate a high-performance engineering culture, and deliver resilient platform capabilities that support clinicians, patients, and internal teams.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Data, DevOps, Security, and other stakeholders to drive platform delivery and quality at scale.

This is a hands-on leadership position that combines technical depth with team management.

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team building event-driven microservices and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS Lambda.
• Define and champion the technical roadmap for key product initiatives, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy and technology vision.
• Provide architectural guidance and lead the design of complex, scalable systems.
• Drive decisions on technology selection and best practices for cloud-native development, particularly with a focus on AWS Lambda and serverless architectures.
• Accountable for driving the technical strategy to improve system performance by 20% and reduce infrastructure costs by 15% year-over-year.
• Serve as a primary liaison between engineering and product, design, and clinical operations teams.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and technical constraints into business risks and opportunities.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards around observability, performance, and system health.
• Own critical backend services from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and continuous enhancement.
• Implement and enforce best practices for security, access control, and data governance.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Mentor teams in adopting new technologies and engineering practices (e.g., CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, test automation) to increase efficiency and quality.
• Lead incident response and foster a culture of continuous learning through blameless retrospectives.
• Contribute to strategic planning, capacity management, and hiring to support team growth.
• Encourage a culture of technical ownership, curiosity, and engineering rigor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering leadership or management role.
• Strong proficiency in building APIs and microservices with Node.js, TypeScript, and modern communication protocols (REST, gRPC, GraphQL).
• Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, serverless computing, and AWS Lambda.
• Extensive, hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, specifically AWS, including deep knowledge of serverless technologies like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD tooling, and observability stacks (e.g., Terraform, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Solid foundation in software design, testing strategies, and production resilience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to drive initiatives across teams and domains.
• Committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, and belonging in engineering environments.
• Extensive, hands-on experience in the healthcare technology domain.
• A deep understanding of healthcare data standards like FHIR is a significant plus.
• Familiarity with FHIR and healthcare data interoperability.
• Familiarity with Salesforce Health Cloud or health-focused CRM integrations.
• Background in observability and distributed tracing/logging pipelines.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States.
• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture.

Requirements

• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 401k retirement savings with employer match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Holiday pay.
• Employee Assistance Program.