Sr. Manager, Engineering

How Youll Make An Impact

At Strive Health patients come first. Were on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier coordinating thoughtful care and supporting people through every stage of their health journey.

Our work reduces emergency visits improves outcomes and helps patients live fuller lives. Youll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact show up for one another as One Team and find ways to elevate the everyday.

If youre looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter youll feel right at home at Strive!

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid-Remote Flexibility Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office clinic or patient home visits.
• Comprehensive Benefits Medical dental and vision insurance employee assistance programs employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance plus health and flexible spending accounts.
• Financial & Retirement Support Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program 401k with employer match and financial wellness resources.
• Time Off & Leave Paid holidays vacation time sick time and paid birthgiving bonding sabbatical and living donor leaves.
• Wellness & Growth Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks mental health support and an annual professional development stipend.

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What Youll Do

• Lead and develop a team of Software and Data Engineers spanning multiple pods providing regular coaching performance feedback and career development guidance across a range of seniority levels. Accountable for sustaining 80% on-time delivery against sprint. commitments and initiative targets.
• Own engineering delivery process health across teams including sprint goal stewardship sprint capacity planning and cross-team delivery accountability in the absence of dedicated Scrum Masters.
• Drive adoption of quality engineering standards including TDD BDD or spec-driven development with a goal of reducing P0 through P2 production incidents.
• Accelerate the teams AI-assisted development capabilities including Claude Code and other AI tooling to reduce overhead and improve engineering throughput in service of Strives goal of 2 hours of weekly time savings per engineer.
• Partner with the VP Engineering to co-create engineering strategy and translate it into actionable execution plans; represent the engineering function in cross-functional forums with Product Clinical and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the engineering owner for Health Cloud support triage including Salesforce admin access management ticket submission and ensuring issues are routed owned and resolved within engineering.
• Manage hiring headcount planning and team structure for the engineering function in partnership with the VP Engineering and People Business Partner.
• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders tofacilitateteam and business priorities/opportunities. Business travel may berequiredfor opportunities to connect with stakeholders serve patients and attend Strive-sponsored team events.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• 9 years combined of related education experience or certification in software engineering data engineering or a closely related field.
• 3 years of experience leading engineering teams including direct accountability for performance management career development and hiring.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60ms.
• Ability to travel and be onsite to meet business needs.

Preferred:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience leading mixed-discipline teams spanning both software and data engineering.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards and systems (e.g. HL7 FHIR EHR/EMR platforms claims data).
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code GitHub Copilot Cursor) and a track record of driving team adoption of new tooling.
• Experience with Agile delivery models (Scrum and/or Kanban) and coaching teams on delivery discipline.
• Cloud-native engineering background preferably on AWS.
• Working knowledge of the data stack: partner files schemas configs dbt/models and AWS services (S3 Bedrock Step Functions Redshift RDS).
• Technical leadership in execution meaning you unblock others by clarifying scope priority and next steps.

About You

• You find more satisfaction in seeing your engineers grow than in writing code yourself people development is your primary lever.
• You give direct timely performance feedback to your engineers including hard conversations about gaps and growth edges and you dont wait for formal review cycles to do it.
• Youre comfortable operating without a Director layer between you and the VP you take initiative make decisions with appropriate autonomy and bring the right level of signal upward.
• You hold yourself and your team to clear expectations and follow through delivery discipline isnt bureaucracy to you its respect for the business and the patients we serve.
• Youre energized by the mission you connect engineering craft to patient and clinician outcomes not just technical metrics.
• You see Strives current scale as an opportunity to build the right patterns early before they become harder to change.

Annual Base Salary Range: $130000 - $163000. This position is also eligible for a target annual bonus of 15%

Final compensation will be determined based on location experience and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please direct your inquiries to

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