LifeStance Health is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a team of software engineers building the core platform that powers the future of our mental health technology. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll combine technical depth with team management to define strategy, cultivate a high-performance culture, and deliver resilient platform capabilities.
What You'll Do
- 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, aligning with 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, with a focus on AWS Lambda and serverless architectures.
- Accountable for driving 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.
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 backgrounds.
Nice to Have
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is highly preferred.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript
- AWS Services: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions
- Infrastructure & Tools: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Standards: FHIR
Team & Environment
You will work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Data, DevOps, Security, and other stakeholders.
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k retirement savings with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holiday pay
- Employee Assistance Program
Work Mode
This is a global role with locations across the United States.
LifeStance 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.
