Sr. Manager, Software

About this role

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…