Senior Software Engineering Manager

Vetcove is a fast-growing company modernizing the veterinary software industry. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, focusing on mentorship, project guidance, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Help promote a culture of quality, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Work directly with our CTO, engineering leadership, and cross functional partners to continuously evolve our products and technical foundation
• Support hiring, onboarding, mentorship, performance feedback, and career development across the engineering organization
• Foster a collaborative, low ego, high ownership culture in a fully remote environment

Requirements:

• 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
• Comfortable working in a fully remote environment