Manager, Software Engineering

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

How We Work with AI:

AI tooling is a core part of how we operate, and we expect engineering managers to foster the responsible use of AI across the software development lifecycle.

You encourage your team to leverage AI-assisted development to improve productivity, code quality, testing, and operational efficiency while ensuring engineering judgment, security, and maintainability remain central to every solution.

You actively identify opportunities to improve engineering workflows through AI-enabled automation and help establish best practices for safe, effective, and responsible adoption across your team.

Responsibilities:

• Leads, hires, develops, and coaches software engineers through performance management, mentorship, and career development.
• Develops and executes the team’s engineering roadmap, balancing business priorities, delivery, platform reliability, technical debt, and operational excellence.
• Guides architectural direction and technical decision-making for shared services, and platform capabilities while empowering engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Continuously improves engineering quality, delivery effectiveness, and developer productivity by establishing engineering standards, development practices, and operational processes that improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partners closely with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and other Engineering teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities and shared services.
• Collaborates with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to define long-term platform strategy, roadmap direction, and technical priorities.
• Uses business context and engineering judgment to guide technical decisions involving APIs, integrations, shared services, cloud platforms, and modern application architecture.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience leading, hiring, retaining, and developing high-performing, geographically distributed software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating highly available cloud-native applications, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and platform services using modern technologies such as event-driven architectures, microservices, GraphQL, React, and Next.js.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, document databases, CI/CD pipelines, API management, observability platforms, and cloud-native application architecture.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and fostering responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Experience leading engineering teams delivering and evolving high-performance, large-scale distributed systems across modern cloud environments.
• Experience leading Agile engineering teams and continuously improving engineering processes, delivery practices, and team effectiveness.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing initiatives, manage delivery risk, and drive predictable execution across engineering teams.
• Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and engineering teams on track.
• Self-motivated with ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment.
• Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.
• Healthcare and/or pharmacy experience is a plus.

Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general GoodRx best practices, such as reading and adhering to the security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.

3.6 Remote $185,000 - $323,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description Pet insurance Employee stock purchase plan Parental leave Health insurance 401(k) matching Vision insurance Dental insurance, At GoodRx, pay ranges are determined based on work locations and may vary based on where the successful candidate is hired. The pay ranges below are shown as a guideline, and the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant business and organizational factors. These pay zones may be modified in the future. Please contact your recruiter for additional information.

San Francisco and Seattle Offices: $202,000.00 - $323,000.00

New York Office: $185,000.00 - $296,000.00

Santa Monica Office: $168,000.00 - $269,000.00

Other Office Locations: $151,000.00 - $242,000.00

GoodRx also offers additional compensation programs such as annual cash bonuses or commission, and annual equity grants for most positions as well as generous benefits. Our great benefits offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with a company match, an ESPP, unlimited vacation, 13 paid holidays, and 72 hours of sick leave. GoodRx also offers additional benefits like mental wellness and financial wellness programs, fertility benefits, generous parental leave, pet insurance, supplemental life insurance for you and your dependents, company-paid short-term and long-term disability, and more!

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.

GoodRx is the leading prescription savings platform in the U.S. Trusted by more than 25 million consumers and 750,000 healthcare professionals annually, GoodRx provides access to savings and affordability options for generic and brand-name medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, as well as comprehensive healthcare research and information. Since 2011, GoodRx has helped consumers save nearly $75 billion on the cost of their prescriptions., GoodRx is America’s healthcare marketplace. The company offers the most comprehensive and accurate resource for affordable prescription medications in the U.S., gathering pricing information from thousands of pharmacies coast to coast, as well as a tele-health marketplace for online doctor visits and lab tests. Since 2011, Americans with and without health insurance have saved $60 billion using GoodRx and million consumers visit goodrx.com each month to find discounts and information related to their healthcare. GoodRx is the #1 most downloaded medical app on the iOS and Android app stores. For more information, visit www.goodrx.com.