Software Engineering Manager

Care.com•Dallas, TX

16d•$150,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Care.com's Enterprise business sells care benefits to employers through LifeCare (WorkLife). The Software Engineering Manager will lead the LifeCare engineering team and supporting PeopleSoft team, owning delivery, reliability, security, and compliance for these systems. This is a hands-on leadership role involving coaching engineers, partnering with product and operations, working with auditors, and leading incident response.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience and 2 or more years of engineering management experience, with a track record of coaching engineers and managing performance.
Strong technical grounding in Java/Spring Boot services and relational databases such as Oracle and/or MySQL, and ability to lead architecture and design discussions.
Experience delivering legacy modernization, migration, or platform-decoupling projects.
Working knowledge of authentication and identity, including OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, and SSO, and IDaaS products such as AWS Cognito, Auth0, or Okta.
Experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD (Jenkins or GitHub Actions), and observability tools such as Splunk or similar.
Experience leading incident response as a war-room lead and running blameless post-mortems.
Experience in regulated environments such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, SOX, PCI, or similar, and comfort working with auditors.
Clear communication with executives, product and operations partners, and distributed teams.

Nice To Haves

PeopleSoft experience (PeopleTools, PeopleCode, Integration Broker) or experience with comparable enterprise CRM/ERP platforms.
Snowflake integration experience.
Familiarity with TypeScript/React/Next.js, GraphQL, and Go.
Background in enterprise benefits, HR-tech, or marketplace businesses, and experience managing vendor or staff-augmentation teams.
Candidates local to Dallas or Austin, Texas, are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow engineers across both teams, including offshore and vendor partners; manage performance and career growth and build a safe, accountable team culture.
Partner with product, QA, data, and DevOps on scoping, estimation, and trade-offs, and provide stakeholders with clear, regular status updates.
Own production health, including on-call readiness, incident response, post-mortems, observability, and alerting.
Drive FedRAMP, STIG, and SOC 2/SOX commitments with security, DBA, and infrastructure partners, including audit logging, TLS, vulnerability scanning, and access and change reviews.
Prioritize support, bug, report, and permission requests against roadmap work and shield the team from low-priority distractions.
Oversee integrations, including Snowflake, SFTP eligibility feeds, and client SSO via SAML/OIDC, and manage vendor and contractor relationships.
Raise code and design quality through effective use of AI tools, reduce single points of knowledge, and propose tech-debt and modernization investments with clear cost/benefit.