Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform

2 weeks, 6 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Headspace

Headspace

Headspace is a top meditation app dedicated to improving global health and happiness through guided meditations and mindfulness practices.

Family Services
51-250
Founded 2010
$276M raised

Description

  • Lead, attract, develop, and retain high-performing technical talent.
  • Develop and drive strategic roadmaps for shared platform capabilities.
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to identify opportunities to replace bespoke solutions with common platform services.
  • Translate platform opportunities into a roadmap with clear business impact.
  • Work with Cloud/Ops, Security, and other engineering teams to ensure services meet availability, compliance, and operational standards.
  • Proactively identify platform gaps before they become incidents.
  • Partner with Principal Engineers on architectural gaps, build-vs-buy decisions, and technical direction.
  • Prioritize tradeoffs between reducing tech debt and building new capabilities.
  • Explore new technologies to support future business needs.
  • Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • 7+ years leading, building, and developing high-performing software development teams.
  • Experience delivering software in a mobile development environment.
  • Experience building and operating high-availability, distributed backend systems such as auth, payments, or identity.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage platform migrations or large-scale refactors without disrupting dependent teams.
  • Experience building or improving observability stacks such as Datadog or OpenTelemetry, and using data to drive engineering decisions.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to distill complexity for varied audiences.
  • Experience building and executing cross-functional roadmaps, including OKRs and milestones.
  • BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, another STEM field, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience leading in a fast-changing, ambiguous problem space.
  • Preferred: ability to influence changes across multiple teams and stakeholder levels.
  • Preferred: background in health tech, fintech, or another regulated industry where compliance and security are critical.
  • Must permanently reside in the US full-time.
  • Preferred locations are San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; and Seattle, WA.
  • San Francisco Bay Area candidates must work in a hybrid model with 3 days per week in office.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $162,000-$225,000 plus equity and benefits.
  • Location-based salary range of $207,000-$258,750 for candidates in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
  • Monthly wellness stipend.
  • Retirement savings match.
  • Stock awards.
  • Lifetime Headspace membership.
  • Generous parental leave.

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