Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Home Care

Company Description

About A Place for Mom:

A Place for Mom is the leading online resource connecting families searching for senior care with a team of expert advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s largest senior care advisory service, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families every year navigate the complexities of finding the right senior care solution for their loved ones across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more. Established in 2000 as a family business, A Place for Mom employees are deeply committed to the company mission to enable caregivers to make the best senior care decisions. A Place for Mom fosters, cultivates, and preserves a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees live the company values every day:

• Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
• Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
• Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
• Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
• Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Manager for our Home Care Engineering Team.  This team utilizes a modern technology stack to create, update, and maintain our frontend and backend infrastructure and tools that power the home care side of our business. This role entails leading a small but impactful team comprising full-stack developers along with QA engineers. This position reports to the VP of Engineering. 

Who you are:

An experienced people manager with a solid understanding of technology who can directly manage a high performance team while also interacting with the Executive-level stakeholders of the Home Care business when needed.  You understand the future vision of your product area and direct the Home Care Engineering team in building iterative, scalable solutions for the present and future business opportunities.  You will leverage your technology experience to direct your team in evaluating and selecting the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and direction to a dedicated team of engineers focused on the mission of engaging families looking for home care solutions. 

The ideal candidate is an outcome-oriented, technology-focused people leader with significant experience building and managing high performance teams and demonstrating a strong partnership with stakeholders, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and business goals. 

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor the Home Care engineering team, providing strategic direction, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, establishing the frameworks for managing, executing work, communicating progress, and directing the activities of your team
• Collaborate with Product partners and Executive-level stakeholders to identify and understand business opportunities, present innovative technical solutions, and lead your team in executing high-impact projects that drive revenue growth
• Encourage your team to experiment and innovate with new technologies, build proof of concept, and present the results to your peers and leadership across the Tech organization
• Partner with other directors and tech leads across Tech to understand cross-team dependencies, validate feature proposals, and drive system improvements.
• Provide the team with the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success.
• Responsible for the Home Care technical strategy and roadmap - driving towards business outcomes and tracking success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering Managers, Product Partners, and stakeholders and aligning work to achieving those metrics.
• Champion whole team quality approach guiding your team on accountability and growth opportunities on roadmap deliverables.
• Professionally develop engineers on your team by helping them build and execute personal development plans that map to our organization goals. Aggressively recruit and hire talented engineers.
• Work closely with Product Partners and Stakeholders to ensure that the company objectives are met on time while simultaneously balancing necessary engineering requirements and influencing the overall technical direction and user experience of our website.

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