# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Allara Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/allara-health)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $225k – $263k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, Llamaindex, Vector Databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Llm Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-03

> Lead and grow a team of engineers building technology for women's health. This player-coach role involves hands-on coding, driving the product roadmap, and integrating AI and agentic systems to improve patient experience.

## Job Description

## 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

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