Sr. Manager, Software

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare. Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team! LifeStance Health Values Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self. Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment. Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it. One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose. Benefits 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. POSITION SUMMARY 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. 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. The Senior Manager is expected to review architecture, challenge design decisions, and guide system design discussions across modern web and cloud-native systems. Success is measured by consistent delivery against commitments, healthy team execution, stable production services, and a measurable lift in engineering discipline and operational maturity. COMPENSATION: $157,000 - $195,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus plan RESPONSIBILITIES Lead execution and delivery for one or more product areas, ensuring commitments are met with high quality (30%) Plan and sequence work to execute established product and technology strategy within team scope (15%) 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%) Monitor operational health and execution risks, escalating issues as needed (10%) Partner with product counterparts to align priorities, scope, and delivery expectations (5%) In this role you will: Translate strategic direction into actionable team initiatives, breaking down objectives into deliverable workstreams and ensuring teams understand both the what and the why Provide technical stewardship across the product area, reviewing architecture, challenging design decisions, and setting standards for code quality, scalability, observability, and operational resilience Set a high bar for engineering rigor and hold teams accountable with persistence, while fostering psychological safety and open communication Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and delivery gaps, escalating tradeoffs early when scope, timelines, or cross-team commitments are at stake 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 REQUIREMENTS 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 Demonstrated success in technology-forward or digital-first companies strongly preferred Required knowledge and skill sets: 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 Multi-squad execution leadership including planning, sequencing, and balancing competing demands, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and driving predictable delivery without creating churn People leadership and talent development including managing senior engineers and emerging leaders, setting clear performance expectations, and developing high-agency, accountable teams Execution discipline and continuous improvement with a track record of raising engineering standards, delivery predictability, operational maturity, on-call effectiveness, and incident response rigor Strong stakeholder communication and influence across product, design, and business partners, with the ability to translate strategy into execution and execution realities back into clear, actionable tradeoffs EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 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. 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. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 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. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 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. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. LifeStance provides the compensation range and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. LifeStance reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law. #LI-Remote #LI-BA1 LifeStance is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are fully committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our employees. Learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at LifeStance. LifeStance Health complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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