Engineering Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of direct people-management or formal team-lead responsibility for a production software team.
• Experience delivering and operating software subject to FDA, SOX, CLIA, HIPAA, or equivalent regulated-environment controls.
• Experience managing delivery with agile or Scrum practices, including planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience hiring and onboarding software engineers.
• Experience leading teams that apply automation and AI-assisted engineering practices in daily delivery, including automated testing, CI/CD, and scripted operations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
• Demonstrated ability to remain technically engaged while managing, including substantive contributions to design review, code review, and architectural decisions on a live production system.
• Experience standing up or reshaping a team while maintaining delivery continuity.
• Experience managing teams that operate production systems with formal on-call rotations.
• Familiarity with structured knowledge-transfer practices when teams absorb existing platform scope.

Responsibilities

• Manage a front-line software engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and career development.
• Own platform delivery, including sprint planning, prioritization with the paired Product Manager, estimation, and predictable release execution under regulated change control.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews, conduct code reviews at a meaningful cadence, and maintain engineering standards for testing, documentation, and observability.
• Run the team using an automation-first operating model, make AI-assisted workflows standard daily practice, and treat automated test and evidence coverage as a first-class delivery responsibility.
• Onboard engineers to the regulated environment, including structured knowledge transfer when new team members take on existing platform scope.
• Partner with Application Site-Reliability Engineering on production readiness, incident response, and post-incident remediation, while keeping production access within segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Maintain team health at a sustainable pace through balanced on-call and support load, managed work-in-progress, and early escalation of capacity risks.
• Provide team-level facts—including throughput, support load, and skill coverage—for quarterly capacity and hiring planning.
• Maintain change-control records, review evidence, and documentation to SOX and FDA standards for team output.
• Embed secure SDLC practices, including OWASP Top Ten awareness in design and code review and early coordination of penetration testing.
• Participate in escalation rotations and respond after hours to emergency production issues as required.
• Travel periodically to other Caris sites or partner locations as required.