About the Position
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high impact team of software engineers with a strong focus on people leadership, mentorship, and engineer growth. We are looking for someone who enjoys coaching engineers, building strong teams, creating clarity, and helping people do the best work of their careers.
As a Senior Engineering Manager at Vetcove, you will help guide projects from conception to completion across much of the technology stack. Your involvement will span team leadership, execution planning, mentorship, hiring, career development, architecture discussions, technical strategy, and engineering process improvement. You should also be close to the code, able to understand technical tradeoffs, assist with code reviews, and help unblock engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers with a strong focus on people development, team health, and career growth
- Support engineers through regular coaching, feedback, goal setting, and career development conversations
- Create clarity for the team around priorities, expectations, ownership, and successful outcomes
- Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to define priorities, drive execution, and deliver successful outcomes
- Support projects from early planning and architecture through implementation, rollout, and long term maintenance
- Stay close to the technical work by understanding system design, reviewing technical plans, participating in architecture discussions, and helping evaluate tradeoffs
- Assist with code reviews and technical feedback where helpful, while primarily enabling the team rather than acting as a regular direct contributor
- Help unblock engineers by providing context, asking the right questions, connecting people, and clarifying priorities
- Contribute to the conceptualization and technical design of new ideas and product enhancements
- Help drive architectural improvements that prioritize scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance
- Reinforce strong engineering standards, development practices, testing habits, and ownership across the team
- Work directly with our CTO, engineering leadership, and cross functional partners to continuously evolve our products and technical foundation
What you should have
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably building modern web applications
- Experience managing, leading, or mentoring engineers in a fast moving technical environment
- A genuine interest in people management, coaching, feedback, and engineer growth
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to understand code, architecture, system design, and engineering tradeoffs
- Comfort assisting with code reviews and technical discussions, even if you are not expected to contribute production code regularly
- Bachelor's Degree required, ideally in Computer Science
- Ability to design systems and features with scalability, security, reliability, and performance in mind
- Experience working with databases and analyzing queries for optimization opportunities