LaunchCapital · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineering Manager (REMOTE)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expLaunchCapital is a company focused on connecting excellent talent with portfolio companies. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead teams in transforming their platform into an AI-powered decision-engine, ensuring high-quality delivery and coaching engineers in a fast-paced environment.
ConsumerInformation TechnologyMedical DevicePublishing
Responsibilities
Partner closely with Product, Design, Customer Success, and Finance to align priorities and deliver measurable customer and business outcomes
Build trust through clear communication, strong execution, and follow-through on commitments
Hold cross-functional partners accountable to shared goals, enabling your team to focus on high-leverage work
Translate platform and business needs into clear roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics
Own outcomes end-to-end: planning, prioritization, delivery, and operational excellence
Establish and continuously improve team mechanisms across discovery, planning, delivery, and retrospectives
Champion an experimentation-driven mindset by defining hypotheses, success metrics, guardrails, and rollout strategies
Ensure results are visible and actionable through clear written communication (readouts, decision docs, postmortems)
Connect day-to-day work to purpose by clearly articulating the 'why' behind initiatives
Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in trust, ownership, and continuous improvement
Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, career development planning, and performance conversations
Identify and develop future technical leaders in partnership with Staff and Principal engineers
Establish strong engineering fundamentals across code review, testing strategies, system design, and documentation
Ensure systems are designed and operated for reliability, scalability, and resilience; lead incident readiness and post-incident learning
Partner with senior technical leaders on architecture and technical strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term maintainability
Enable responsible use of GenAI developer tools (coding assistance, debugging, design reviews) while upholding standards for security, privacy, and correctness
Qualification
Required
5+ years of people management experience with demonstrated ownership of team delivery, growth, and performance
10+ years of experience building and operating distributed, event-driven systems in production
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Proven ability to run effective delivery processes and improve predictability and quality over time
Strong fundamentals in API-first system design and platform architecture
Experience applying data and/or AI capabilities in production environments (e.g., analytics, automation, recommendations, or decision support)
Production experience with Java, Node.js, Vue, or comparable technologies
Experience operating systems in the cloud (AWS or equivalent), including configuration, reliability, and observability
Solid understanding of software quality practices, testing strategies, and continuous improvement
Preferred
Experience with search or information retrieval systems
Workflow orchestration and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Argo, Airflow, Terraform, Ansible, other)
Observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, DataDog, Dyntrace, other)
Experience integrating with external social platforms and APIs (TikTok, Meta, YouTube, other)
Benefits
Competitive Salary
Remote Work Options with Hybrid Flexibility and Home Office Set-Up Stipend
Coworking Office Subscription for Collaborative Spaces
Health, Dental, and Life Insurance Coverage
Open Vacation Policy and Flexible Holiday Schedule to Suit Your Needs
Paid Parental Leave to Support Quality Time with Your Loved Ones
Career Development, including Internal and External Training Opportunities
Company
LaunchCapital
LaunchCapital is focused on entrepreneurs at the seed stage.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase