Senior SW Engineering Manager

Groups Recover Together is a company focused on substance use disorder care delivery, seeking a Senior SW Engineering Manager to lead a remote scrum team. This role involves managing engineering operations, driving delivery practices, and shaping technical strategy to enhance engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a remote scrum team of senior software engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Drive individual development planning, regular feedback, and performance management; set a high bar for engineering talent and invest in the growth of each team member
• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent, including evaluating and managing engineers engaged through outsourced or nearshore/offshore partnerships
• Foster an inclusive, supportive, and high-performing team culture built on psychological safety and trust
• Mentor and coach other engineering leaders and senior individual contributors within the organization
• Own end-to-end delivery of engineering commitments, collaborating with the team to set achievable sprint goals and deliver high-quality software on time
• Establish and evolve team delivery practices — including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, retrospectives, and release management — rather than simply facilitating existing processes
• Monitor delivery health and quality metrics; proactively identify and address blockers, risks, and dependencies across teams
• Balance technical debt remediation with product feature delivery, making pragmatic prioritization decisions in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
• Ensure software is developed to meet security, compliance, and regulatory standards applicable to healthcare technology environments (e.g., HIPAA)
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the engineering organization, including team structure, investment allocation, build-vs-buy decisions, and outsourcing strategy
• Define and lead the team’s approach to AI adoption and engineering productivity — driving experimentation, establishing team-level conventions and guardrails, and measuring impact on delivery outcomes
• Establish and maintain engineering-wide standards for code quality, development practices, tooling, and operational excellence
• Drive multi-team coordination across the engineering organization, including work allocation, cross-team dependency management, and shared roadmap planning
• Represent engineering in leadership-level conversations, contributing an informed perspective on capacity, feasibility, risk, and technical direction
• Drive roadmap alignment with Product Management — actively shaping what the team builds and why, not just executing against a product-defined backlog
• Collaborate with data, clinical, and operations teams to support platform integrations, data pipeline needs, and clinical workflow technology
• Serve as a primary point of contact for vendor and outsourcing partners, managing relationships at both the strategic and delivery level
• Communicate engineering status, risks, and strategic recommendations clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain sufficient technical fluency to support technical decision-making and participate meaningfully in architecture discussions, code reviews, and design decisions
• Ensure alignment with architectural principles, coding standards, and best practices across the team
• Encourage and facilitate pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to raise the collective technical bar
• Evaluate and drive adoption of new tools, platforms, and development practices that improve team productivity and product quality
• Oversee engineering contributions to data platform initiatives, including ETL pipelines, third-party integrations, and data infrastructure improvements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field required from an accredited college
• 5–7+ years of direct engineering management experience, with demonstrated success leading and scaling software delivery teams
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable solutions
• Demonstrated experience managing remote, distributed engineering teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience operating across multiple teams, including multi-team coordination, shared roadmap planning, and cross-team dependency management
• Track record of establishing or significantly evolving delivery practices, engineering standards, or operational processes — not just inheriting and running them
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence at the leadership level, navigate organizational dynamics, and align cross-functional stakeholders
• Access to reliable internet and telephone services, specifically 10M download and 5M upload packages or higher as well as a strong WiFi signal from your remote work location
• Must meet pre-employment requirements and maintain all applicable state and job-related guidelines for background screening
• Depending on state-specific requirements, this may include fingerprinting, drug testing, health screening, and license/credential verifications
• Advanced degree preferred