Manager, Software Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee, recruit, mentor, and nurture software engineers through performance management, guidance, and career advancement.

• Formulate and implement the engineering roadmap for the team while balancing business objectives, delivery timelines, platform reliability, technical debt, and operational excellence.

• Direct the architectural vision and technical decision-making for shared services and platform functionalities.

• Set engineering standards, development methodologies, and operational processes to enhance scalability, reliability, maintainability, delivery efficiency, and developer productivity.

• Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and various Engineering teams to provide dependable platform capabilities and shared services.

• Work alongside engineering leadership and cross-functional collaborators on long-term platform strategies, roadmap guidance, and technical priorities.

• Steer technical decisions related to APIs, integrations, shared services, cloud platforms, and modern application architectures.

• Promote the responsible application of AI-assisted development throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Ensure appropriate management, operational, and technical security measures are in place while adhering to GoodRx security policies and procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Demonstrated experience in leading, hiring, retaining, and developing high-performing, geographically dispersed software engineering teams.

• Proficient in designing, building, and managing highly available cloud-native applications, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and platform services.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, GraphQL, React, and Next.js.

• Experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, document databases, CI/CD pipelines, API management, observability platforms, and cloud-native application architecture.

• Skilled in leveraging AI-assisted development tools and promoting responsible AI-enabled engineering workflows.

• Proven track record of leading teams that deliver and enhance high-performance, large-scale distributed systems in modern cloud environments.

• Experience in leading Agile engineering teams and refining engineering processes, delivery methodologies, and team effectiveness.

• Capability to prioritize conflicting initiatives, manage delivery risks, and drive consistent execution.

• Strong organizational skills and adept project management abilities.

• Proficient in multitasking and thriving in a deadline-driven atmosphere.

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex subjects for wider audiences.

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving abilities, sound judgment, and the capacity to make decisions based on accurate and timely information.

• Background in healthcare and/or pharmacy is advantageous.

• Committed to adhering to security policies and procedures while identifying potential security threats.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses or commission.

• Annual equity grants for most positions.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) with a company match.

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).

• Unlimited vacation.

• 13 paid holidays.

• 72 hours of sick leave.

• Mental wellness programs.

• Financial wellness programs.

• Fertility benefits.

• Generous parental leave.

• Pet insurance.

• Supplemental life insurance for you and your dependents.

• Company-paid short-term disability.

• Company-paid long-term disability.

• Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.