(Senior) Engineering Manager

Location

New York City, NY

Hybrid role requiring three days per week in the office, Tuesday through Thursday, in Manhattan.

Compensation

$172,000 – $253,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa

Open to visa transfers, including H-1B and TN. New H-1B sponsorship may be considered under specific conditions.

Company Stage

Series B / High-Growth Technology Company

Industry

Education Technology, Healthcare Technology, Workforce Development, SaaS, AI, B2B2C, B2B, Consumer Technology

About the Company

Our client is building technology that creates accessible pathways into healthcare careers, helping people enroll in training programs, complete their education, and ultimately secure their first healthcare jobs.

The company operates at the intersection of healthcare and education, with a mission-driven approach focused on improving outcomes for students entering the allied healthcare workforce.

The business has grown rapidly and is expanding from a primarily direct-to-consumer model into enterprise partnerships with major healthcare systems. The company works with organizations including large healthcare providers and health systems while continuing to scale its student-focused product.

The engineering organization is growing alongside the broader company, with approximately 14 product engineers today and plans to continue expanding significantly. Engineering teams are organized into product-focused pods, with managers responsible for creating high-performing teams, improving engineering execution, and connecting technical work directly to business and customer outcomes.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead Product Engineers building end-to-end experiences across learning, career placement, and student engagement.

This is a hands-on management role where you will remain technically involved while developing engineers, recruiting talent, partnering with Product and Design, and helping shape the engineering organization during a major stage of growth.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with genuine software engineering depth, startup experience, business judgment, and the ability to connect engineering decisions to customer impact.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of Product Engineers responsible for building high-impact student experiences
• Manage and develop a team of approximately 5–10+ engineers
• Create a high-trust, psychologically safe, and high-performing engineering culture
• Help engineers grow through regular feedback, coaching, development plans, and career opportunities
• Recruit, interview, and onboard strong engineering talent as the organization scales
• Remove blockers and improve team processes to help engineers deliver impactful outcomes
• Establish sustainable engineering practices while maintaining a strong bias toward execution
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations teams
• Participate in product discovery and help ensure engineering priorities align with business goals
• Translate business and customer needs into effective engineering execution
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and establish expectations around delivery
• Balance competing priorities and make clear, structured decisions
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes and systems
• Contribute approximately 20% of your time directly to the codebase
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers
• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions
• Write code and remain hands-on with the engineering team
• Help maintain high engineering quality and technical standards
• Guide technical roadmaps and system evolution
• Improve engineering systems such as CI/CD, developer experience, and engineering velocity
• Lead engineering projects from discovery through execution and delivery
• Work across core product areas including Learning Experience, Careers, and Human Connection
• Help build adaptive learning and AI-powered feedback experiences
• Support ranking algorithms and partner-matching systems
• Help develop LLM-driven internal tools and AI-enabled workflows
• Ensure engineering teams understand the customer and business impact of their work
• Develop engineering leaders and create opportunities for team members to expand their scope
• Help scale engineering processes as the company grows from approximately 115 employees toward 150+
• Partner with senior engineering leadership on organizational planning and team structure
• Operate effectively in a rapidly changing startup environment
• Maintain strong technical judgment while balancing speed, reliability, and product impact
• Take ownership of team outcomes rather than simply managing project execution

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience for the Engineering Manager level
• 5+ years of people management experience for the Senior Engineering Manager level
• Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Experience managing teams of approximately 5–10+ engineers
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams during periods of rapid growth
• Strong full-stack software engineering background
• Experience building and shipping customer-facing software
• Experience at high-growth startups strongly preferred
• Experience in B2C, B2B2C, EdTech, HealthTech, or similar product environments preferred
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design
• Experience participating in product discovery, planning, and execution
• Experience connecting engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes
• Experience improving engineering processes and development velocity
• Experience remaining hands-on while managing engineering teams
• Strong technical foundation that allows the candidate to evaluate engineering talent effectively
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through periods of organizational and technical change
• Experience operating effectively in ambiguous and rapidly evolving environments
• Strong business acumen and product judgment
• Track record of owning meaningful engineering outcomes

Technical Requirements

• Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals
• Strong understanding of modern web application architecture
• Ability to review and assess production-quality code
• Comfortable contributing code as an Engineering Manager
• Experience with backend and frontend systems
• Strong understanding of APIs and distributed application architecture
• Experience with product engineering environments
• Strong system design fundamentals
• Experience improving engineering infrastructure and development processes
• Experience with CI/CD systems
• Understanding of developer productivity and engineering velocity
• Ability to make architecture and technical tradeoff decisions
• Experience guiding technical roadmaps
• Strong debugging and technical problem-solving ability
• Ability to evaluate technical candidates during interviews
• Comfortable discussing engineering architecture with technical teams
• Experience working with data-driven product systems
• Familiarity with AI-powered product development preferred
• Exposure to LLM-driven applications and workflows preferred
• Ability to balance engineering quality with product delivery speed
• Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Ability to remain technically credible while operating as a people leader

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical disciplines preferred
• Strong technical academic background is a plus
• Exceptional professional engineering and leadership experience can compensate for academic pedigree

Soft Skills

• Strong people leadership
• Genuine love for developing engineers and helping them grow
• Strong communication skills
• Gravitas and executive presence
• High emotional intelligence
• Ability to engage and inspire engineering teams
• Structured and strategic thinking
• Hypothesis-driven decision making
• Strong business judgment
• Strong product intuition
• Customer empathy
• Ability to connect technical work to customer impact
• Strong stakeholder management
• Comfortable partnering with Product and Design
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong coaching and mentorship skills
• High ownership mentality
• Bias toward action
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
• Able to balance speed with engineering quality
• Comfortable in rapidly changing startup environments
• Strong organizational skills
• Data-driven approach to decision making
• Ability to build trust within engineering teams
• Low-ego and collaborative leadership style
• Strong hiring instincts
• Ability to identify and develop high-potential engineers
• Comfortable giving and receiving direct feedback
• Strong sense of accountability
• Excited by mission-driven work
• Comfortable working in a high-growth environment
• Comfortable working hybrid three days per week in New York City

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $172,000 – $253,000
• Competitive equity package
• Opportunity to lead Product Engineering teams at a rapidly growing technology company
• High degree of ownership over engineering teams and technical execution
• Opportunity to develop and mentor high-performing engineers
• Exposure to healthcare, education, workforce development, and AI
• Opportunity to shape engineering processes during a major growth phase
• Direct partnership with Product, Design, Data, and Operations
• Opportunity to influence product and technical strategy
• Hands-on technical leadership alongside people management
• Opportunity to help scale the engineering organization significantly
• Mission-driven work directly impacting students and healthcare workforce outcomes
• Hybrid work environment in New York City
• Visa transfer support, including H-1B and TN under applicable conditions

Why Join

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing technology company working at the intersection of healthcare and education, with a mission focused on creating accessible pathways into the healthcare workforce.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll have meaningful ownership over both people and product. You'll lead engineers building products that directly affect whether students enroll, complete their programs, and successfully transition into healthcare careers.

The engineering organization is at an important inflection point. The company is scaling rapidly, expanding into enterprise partnerships, incorporating AI into the product experience, and growing its engineering organization.

You'll have the opportunity to shape how engineering teams operate at this stage of growth while remaining close enough to the code to maintain strong technical credibility.

The role offers a rare combination of people leadership, hands-on engineering, product partnership, hiring, and organizational building.

If you enjoy developing engineers, building high-performing teams, staying technically involved, partnering closely with Product and Design, and connecting engineering work to meaningful customer outcomes, this role offers significant scope and impact.