Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Mindbody · United States
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**Senior Manager, Software Engineering — Playlist / Mindbody** At Playlist, life’s richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We’re building the definitive platform for intentional living—connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. --- ## The Role You’ll Play You’ll help keep assigned projects on track by aligning people, priorities, and resources to deliver key milestones. You’ll lead and develop a software engineering management team, strengthen coding and problem-solving capabilities, and help build a high-performing backend and core software organization for Mindbody. You’ll partner closely with design and business teams to bring useful, usable, customer-centered product experiences to life. **What you’ll do:** - Build and manage a talented backend development organization focused on delivering meaningful product features - Lead, coach, and develop software engineering managers and technical team members - Establish development metrics and regular processes for assessing performance and identifying improvement opportunities - Create consistent project management and software development processes to support high-quality delivery in rapid iterations - Apply strong design, business, and technical judgment to accelerate releases while advancing long-term product goals - Champion software development excellence, customer centricity, and continuous improvement across the organization - Present and evangelize prototyped concepts to diverse audiences through formal and informal presentations - Facilitate cross-functional teams, contribute to short- and long-term planning, and help resolve challenges constructively --- ## Experience You Bring - 7+ years of hands-on experience as a web development engineer - 7+ years of experience managing backend development teams - 5+ years of experience managing and leading technical employees - Experience developing products for global markets - Experience working in a highly agile or Scrum environment - Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and develop strong software engineering teams - Strong judgment and communication skills; ability to collaborate effectively across design, business, and technical teams - Commitment to serving customers, evolving how work gets done, and creating useful, usable experiences --- ## Technology Mindbody is primarily a **.NET and C#** engineering organization running on **AWS**. Depending on your team and focus, you may work with: - **Backend:** .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Python, Django, Ruby, Rails - **Frontend & Mobile:** React, TypeScript, Next.js, Ember, React Native - **Data:** PostgreSQL on Aurora, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB - **Infrastructure & Delivery:** AWS, Kubernetes on EKS, Lambda, Pulumi, Docker, Helm, Flux, Azure DevOps, GitHub, LaunchDarkly, New Relic --- ## Have we piqued your curiosity? Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you—even if you’re not 100% sure about fit. We’re looking for the right person, not a perfect series of checkboxes. *Equal Opportunity Employer.* We value diversity and encourage people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. *Note:* This description outlines ke
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