Sr. Manager, Engineering

Strive Health; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-Remote flexibility

Competitive compensation with bonus

401k with employer match

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Strive Health in Denver seeks a senior engineering leader to coach and scale a combined software and data engineering team. You’ll champion delivery discipline, own AWS architecture, and contribute code while mentoring across squads to meet sprint goals.

You’ll drive quality standards, advance AI-assisted development tools, and partner with Product, Clinical, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into execution, improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in software or data engineering roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams and hiring.
• On-site travel capability and willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a software and data engineering team across multiple pods.
• Maintain ≥80% on-time delivery against sprint commitments and goals.
• Own engineering delivery processes, including sprint planning and cross-team accountability.
• Promote quality standards (TDD/BDD) and reduce production incidents.
• Advance AI-assisted development tooling and drive adoption across teams.
• Partner with VP Engineering to translate strategy into execution plans.

Skills

People development

Engineering leadership

AWS architecture

Agile delivery

Stakeholder alignment

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Job description

How You’ll Make An Impact

At Strive Health, patients come first. We’re on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier, coordinating thoughtful care, and supporting people through every stage of their health journey. Our work reduces emergency visits, improves outcomes, and helps patients live fuller lives. You’ll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact, show up for one another as One Team, and find ways to elevate the everyday. If you’re looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter, you’ll feel right at home at Strive!

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid-Remote Flexibility – Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office, clinic, or patient home visits.
• Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee assistance programs, employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance, plus health and flexible spending accounts.
• Financial & Retirement Support – Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program, 401k with employer match, and financial wellness resources.
• Time Off & Leave – Paid holidays, vacation time, sick time, and paid birthgiving, bonding, sabbatical, and living donor leaves.
• Wellness & Growth – Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks, mental health support, and an annual professional development stipend.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop a team of Software and Data Engineers spanning multiple pods — providing regular coaching, performance feedback, and career development guidance across a range of seniority levels. Accountable for sustaining ≥80% on-time delivery against sprint. commitments and initiative targets.
• Operate within a hands-on technical leadership role with roughly 60% of your time spent towards AWS architecture and writing Python and 40% leading and developing a team. The ideal candidate is a senior manager with strong AWS foundation who stays close to the work, regularly contributes code, and mentors both their own team and others across the AWS stack.
• Own engineering delivery process health across teams — including sprint goal stewardship, sprint capacity planning, and cross-team delivery accountability in the absence of dedicated Scrum Masters.
• Drive adoption of quality engineering standards including TDD, BDD, or spec-driven development, with a goal of reducing P0 through P2 production incidents.
• Accelerate the team’s AI-assisted development capabilities — including Claude Code and other AI tooling — to reduce overhead and improve engineering throughput in service of Strive’s goal of 2+ hours of weekly time savings per engineer.
• Partner with the VP, Engineering to co-create engineering strategy and translate it into actionable execution plans; represent the engineering function in cross-functional forums with Product, Clinical, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the engineering owner for Health Cloud support triage — including Salesforce admin access management, ticket submission, and ensuring issues are routed, owned, and resolved within engineering.
• Manage hiring, headcount planning, and team structure for the engineering function in partnership with the VP, Engineering and People Business Partner.
• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders to facilitate team and business priorities/opportunities. Business travel may be required for opportunities to connect with stakeholders, serve patients, and attend Strive-sponsored team events.

Qualifications

• Minimum: 9+ years combined of related education, experience, or certification in software engineering, data engineering, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including direct accountability for performance management, career development, and hiring.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency
• Ability to travel and be onsite to meet business needs.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience leading mixed-discipline teams spanning both software and data engineering.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards and systems (e.g., HL7, FHIR, EHR/EMR platforms, claims data).
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and a track record of driving team adoption of new tooling.
• Experience with Agile delivery models (Scrum and/or Kanban) and coaching teams on delivery discipline.
• Cloud-native engineering background, preferably on AWS.
• Working knowledge of the data stack: partner files, schemas, configs, dbt/models, and AWS services (S3, Bedrock, Step Functions, Redshift, RDS).
• Technical leadership in execution, meaning you unblock others by clarifying scope, priority, and next steps.

About You

• You find more satisfaction in seeing your engineers grow than in writing code yourself — people development is your primary lever.
• You give direct, timely performance feedback to your engineers — including hard conversations about gaps and growth edges — and you don’t wait for formal review cycles to do it.
• You’re comfortable operating without a Director layer between you and the VP — you take initiative, make decisions with appropriate autonomy, and bring the right level of signal upward.
• You hold yourself and your team to clear expectations and follow through — delivery discipline isn’t bureaucracy to you, it’s respect for the business and the patients we serve.
• You’re energized by the mission — you connect engineering craft to patient and clinician outcomes, not just technical metrics.
• You see Strive’s current scale as an opportunity to build the right patterns early, before they become harder to change.

Annual Base Salary Range: $130,000 - $163,000. This position is also eligible for a target annual bonus of 15%

Final compensation will be determined based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Strive Health will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.