Engineering Manager

About ComPsych

ComPsychⓇ is the worldwide leader in organizational mental health, well-being, and absence management, dedicated to igniting human potential in workplaces across the globe. For over 40 years, we have combined the best in technology with unmatched human expertise to help individuals and their organizations thrive. Our GuidanceResourcesⓇ and AbsenceResourcesⓇ solutions deliver end-to-end mental health, well-being, work-life, health navigation, and absence support to more than 75,000 customers worldwide,  touching more than 160 million lives across 200 countries. Visit compsych.com to find out why 40% of the Fortune 500 choose ComPsych for their mental health and absence management needs.

Job Summary

At ComPsych, AI isn’t a productivity add-on bolted onto how we’ve always worked—it has fundamentally changed how we build. Our engineers use agentic development workflows as standard equipment: directing coding agents, running parallel workstreams, and moving from problem to production-ready code faster than traditional development allows. They do it in a way the rest of the team can follow, review, and build on.

As an Engineering Manager, your job isn’t to coordinate every task or be the team’s lead developer. You create the conditions for strong engineers to move with high ownership and autonomy — giving them clear context, removing the things that slow them down, and making sure increased speed doesn’t come at the expense of quality, security, or sound engineering judgment. Our platform carries behavioral health data for millions of members, so reliability and correctness are non-negotiable.

This isn’t a role for someone who is still curious about AI-assisted development. It’s for someone who already works this way and can build a team that does. Our value isn’t the code we write; it’s the problems we solve together. Skills, tools, and technical craft are in service of that outcome, not ends in themselves.

Primary Responsibilities

Your team is your product. You’re accountable for what it ships, how it holds up in production, and who your engineers become along the way.

You own how that team works, too — how work gets planned, verified, and delivered.

• Build and lead a strong engineering team — hire well, coach directly, give clear feedback, and help engineers grow into bigger scope.
• Own your team’s outcomes, not just its activity. You make sure the right work is clear, the team has a credible path to deliver it, and commitments are ones stakeholders can plan around. Problems don’t sit unresolved because no one owned them.
• Clear the path so engineers can move quickly and independently — dependencies, review bottlenecks, and protected focus time.
• Stay close enough technically to challenge designs, understand the architecture, and know when a decision creates risk. You are accountable for the engineering bar your team ships.
• Own the health of what your team puts into production — reliability, observability, incident response, security, and fixing the structural causes behind recurring problems.
• Partner with Product and other stakeholders to turn business priorities into engineering outcomes. You make tradeoffs explicit, surface risk early, and help the team understand why the work matters, not just what needs to be built.
• Set how your team works with agents — establish effective practices for delegation, context, verification, and review so higher implementation speed turns into real throughput without increasing rework or eroding quality.

Job Qualifications

• You’ve managed software engineers directly — hiring, performance management, and accountability for your team’s delivery and health, not just technical direction on a project.
• You make people better. You give direct feedback, coach to the individual, handle difficult conversations when they need to happen, and know when to step in versus when to let someone own the problem.
• You come from a software engineering background, with enough technical depth to engage seriously on architecture, quality, and engineering tradeoffs. Strong engineers respect your judgment even though you aren’t trying to be the strongest IC in the room.
• You’ve operated software in a production cloud environment (AWS preferred) — you know what it takes to build, observe, support, and recover systems real customers depend on, including the on-call load that comes with it.
• You build security in rather than bolt it on, and you hold your team to the same bar. In a system that carries behavioral health data, “it works” and “it’s safe” are the same standard — you design for it upfront, and you catch it in review when someone else didn’t.
• You improve the system instead of becoming the system. When a team depends on you to coordinate every decision or unblock every piece of work, you see that as a problem to fix, not evidence that you’re doing your job well.
• You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information. You bring structure to ambiguity, name the tradeoffs, and change course when the evidence says you should.
• You understand the business goals behind your team’s work well enough to make sensible decisions about scope, capacity, technical investment, and risk.

AI-First Working Style (Non-Negotiable)

• You work this way yourself. You’ve directed agents on real work, and you know from experience where they create leverage, where human review matters most, and where speed creates new bottlenecks.
• You expect engineers to delegate meaningful work to AI agents, but you don’t confuse generated output with finished work. Someone is accountable for every line that ships, and that someone is on your team.
• You manage for outcomes, not AI usage. The goal isn’t more generated code — it’s a team that solves more valuable problems, faster, while maintaining the standard required of a platform carrying behavioral health data.

Other Requirements

• Consistent and reliable high-speed internet and a workspace free from distraction, disruption, or noise is required
• Ability to be present on camera during work-related trainings, meetings, and/or events
• Must be able to sit or stand at a desk for prolonged periods while working on a computer

Compensation and Benefits

• Full benefits package, including Paid Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, robust EAP, wellness program, and much more
• The salary range for this position is $190,000 - $210,000 USD plus bonus. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, and scheduled hours. 

EEO

ComPsych is an equal opportunity employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, age, genetics, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. ComPsych Corporation maintains a drug free workplace.

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