Senior Engineering Manager

Vetcove

Senior Engineering Manager at Vetcove leading engineers to enhance veterinary software platforms. Coaching, planning, and collaborating to deliver reliable, innovative solutions in a remote environment.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers with a strong focus on people development, team health, and career growth
Support engineers through regular coaching, feedback, goal setting, and career development conversations
Create clarity for the team around priorities, expectations, ownership, and successful outcomes
Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to define priorities, drive execution, and deliver successful outcomes
Support projects from early planning and architecture through implementation, rollout, and long term maintenance
Stay close to the technical work by understanding system design, reviewing technical plans, participating in architecture discussions, and helping evaluate tradeoffs
Assist with code reviews and technical feedback where helpful, while primarily enabling the team rather than acting as a regular direct contributor
Help unblock engineers by providing context, asking the right questions, connecting people, and clarifying priorities
Contribute to the conceptualization and technical design of new ideas and product enhancements
Help drive architectural improvements that prioritize scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance
Reinforce strong engineering standards, development practices, testing habits, and ownership across the team
Help promote a culture of quality, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Work directly with our CTO, engineering leadership, and cross functional partners to continuously evolve our products and technical foundation
Support hiring, onboarding, mentorship, performance feedback, and career development across the engineering organization
Foster a collaborative, low ego, high ownership culture in a fully remote environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably building modern web applications
Experience managing, leading, or mentoring engineers in a fast moving technical environment
A genuine interest in people management, coaching, feedback, and engineer growth
Strong technical judgment and the ability to understand code, architecture, system design, and engineering tradeoffs
Comfort assisting with code reviews and technical discussions, even if you are not expected to contribute production code regularly
Bachelor's Degree required, ideally in Computer Science
Ability to design systems and features with scalability, security, reliability, and performance in mind
Experience working with databases and analyzing queries for optimization opportunities
Comfortable working in a fully remote environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringweb applicationssystem designarchitecturecode reviewsdatabase managementquery optimizationscalabilitysecurityperformance

Soft Skills

people managementcoachingfeedbackteam developmentcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementmentorshipcommunicationleadership

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science