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Senior Engineering Manager

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: South San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $220,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers, setting clear direction and creating a culture of ownership and accountability
  • Define and evolve the architecture of our care operations platform to support scale, reliability, and rapid iteration
  • Partner closely with product, clinical, data, and operations leaders to translate complex healthcare workflows into simple, high-leverage systems
  • Drive pragmatic adoption of AI and automation to increase care team efficiency and unlock new capabilities
  • Balance speed and durability in a regulated environment, making thoughtful tradeoffs that support long-term scalability
  • Develop senior engineers into technical leaders through structured feedback, coaching, and delegation of meaningful ownership
  • Improve system observability, quality, and operational excellence so internal teams can depend on our tools every day
  • Contribute to broader engineering strategy, prioritization, and cross-team alignment as a senior engineering leader

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • 3+ years of experience managing engineers, including senior engineers and/or multiple teams
  • Experience operating in startup or high-growth environments where leaders are expected to define strategy and execute
  • A track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives from concept through iteration
  • Strong technical judgment across backend systems, APIs, and frontend applications (experience with Python/Django, React, AWS, and SQL is a plus)
  • Experience introducing AI-enabled tooling or workflow automation into production systems
  • Demonstrated success developing engineers through direct feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship
  • Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
Benefits
  • 💰 Competitive salary
  • ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
  • 📈 401k match
  • 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend
  • 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
  • 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonDjangoReactAWSSQLAI-enabled toolingworkflow automationbackend systemsAPIsfrontend applications
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationstrategic thinkingfeedbackaccountabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycross-functional initiative delivery