Published: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:50:52 GMT
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Position: Senior Engineering Manager at LifeStance
Role Description:
LifeStance is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and expand our team of highly skilled software engineers. This position will oversee the development of our core platform, which is crucial for the future of mental health technology.
Responsibilities:
– Develop scalable systems with a focus on seamless interoperability, particularly using FHIR.
– Create robust microservices to facilitate secure and real-time data exchange across clinical and operational systems.
– Define technical strategy and cultivate a high-performance engineering culture to deliver resilient platform capabilities for clinicians, patients, and internal teams.
– Collaborate with various teams including Product, Design, Data, DevOps, Security, and others to drive platform delivery and quality at scale.
– Lead a team of engineers in building event-driven microservices and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS Lambda.
– 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.
– Make decisions on technology selection and implement best practices for cloud-native development, with a focus on AWS Lambda and serverless architectures.
– Be accountable for driving the technical strategy to improve system performance by 20% and reduce infrastructure costs by 15% year-over-year.
– Act as a primary liaison between engineering and other teams such as product, design, and clinical operations.
– Translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa.
– Establish and maintain engineering standards for observability, performance, and system health.
– Take ownership of critical backend services from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement.
– 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 promote 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.
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