Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A Place for Mom is the leading platform guiding families through every stage of the aging journey. They are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead their Web engineering team, responsible for APFM.com, focusing on delivering high-quality consumer web experiences and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and retain the team of engineers building and evolving APFM.com and related web properties
- Own delivery for the Web platform: planning sprints, managing scope, and removing blockers to keep the team moving
- Partner closely with Product, Design, SEO, and Content teams to translate roadmap priorities into clear, well-scoped engineering work
- Set and uphold engineering standards across code quality, performance, Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), testing, observability, and security
- Drive technical decisions in collaboration with principal and staff engineers, balancing speed with long-term maintainability
- Build a culture of accountability, learning, and psychological safety — running effective 1:1s, performance conversations, and career development planning
- Collaborate across the engineering organization on shared infrastructure, platform investments, and cross-team dependencies
- Contribute to hiring: sourcing, interviewing, and closing strong engineering talent
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in an engineering management role
- Experience leading teams building consumer-facing web products at scale, ideally on modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks (React, Next.js, Node.js)
- Comfort with GraphQL and API-driven architectures
- Strong track record of delivering reliable, high-quality, high-traffic consumer web experiences in a product-led environment
- Able to engage technically — review architecture proposals, give meaningful code feedback, and make sound tradeoff decisions
- Excellent communicator who can operate comfortably across engineers, product managers, and senior leadership
- Experience with agile delivery practices, sprint planning, and cross-functional roadmap execution
- Demonstrated ability to grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and structured career development
- Deep familiarity with SEO fundamentals, Core Web Vitals, and performance optimization at consumer scale
- Experience with headless CMS platforms (Sanity, Contentful, or similar) and content-driven architectures
- Background in high-traffic consumer web (marketplace, content-heavy, or SaaS-consumer hybrid)
- Exposure to data and analytics tooling (PostHog, Databricks, or similar) and building data-informed products
- Experience partnering with AI/ML teams to bring model-powered features into consumer-facing surfaces
- Prior experience scaling or restructuring engineering teams through periods of growth or transition
Benefits
- Bonus: 20% of annual earnings
- 401(k) plus match
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
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