Senior Engineering Manager

The Opportunity:

Allara is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers building the technology that powers expert, longitudinal care for women's hormonal, metabolic, and reproductive health. You'll partner closely with product, design, and clinical stakeholders to deliver high-impact features while staying hands-on in the code. This is a player-coach role where you'll shape team direction, own measurable outcomes, and directly contribute to the platform serving 60,000+ patients nationwide. You'll lead a team of 4 engineers, with plans to grow to 6-7.

Your Impact

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Stay hands-on by writing and shipping code roughly 30-50% of the time, setting the technical bar through direct contribution
• Own a clear mission or product area, driving the roadmap and being accountable for the KPIs that measure its success
• Drive the integration of AI and agentic systems into the platform, identifying high-leverage opportunities to improve patient experience and care delivery through LLM-powered features
• Partner with product, design, and clinical leadership to translate business and patient-care goals into well-scoped technical initiatives
• Drive engineering quality through code review, architectural guidance, and pragmatic technical decision-making
• Run effective team rituals (standups, planning, retros, 1:1s) and manage performance, career development, and hiring for your team
• Identify and remove blockers, balance technical debt against new product work, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery

Required Qualifications

• 2-4 years of direct experience managing a team of software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience shipping production features in a service-oriented or distributed architecture, with the ability and willingness to contribute code at 30-50% capacity
• Proficiency with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, and RESTful APIs
• Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects from scope through launch
• Experience guiding technical direction by validating IC-driven proposals against broader architectural goals
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong sense of ownership and a bias toward action in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in healthcare, telehealth, or another regulated industry (HIPAA-aware environments a plus)
• Experience scaling engineering teams or processes at a high-growth startup
• Track record of driving and delivering AI agentic products in production, with hands-on experience in LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex), vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and evaluation/observability tooling for LLM systems

Compensation & Career Growth

• $225,000-$262,500 with opportunities for advancement
• Equity
• Professional development & employee learning programs

Work Environment & Flexibility

• 3-day hybrid in NYC
• Unlimited PTO & 11 company holidays

Health & Wellness

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long- and short-term disability coverage
• Annual employee wellness stipend

Family & Future Planning

• 401(k) plan
• Parental leave & family planning support benefits

Additional Perks

• Company-issued laptop
• Annual work-from-home stipend
• Commuter benefits (if applicable)
• A collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on improving patient care