Senior Engineering Manager

We are looking for a hands-on and proactive Senior Technical Engineering Manager (SEM). As an SEM, you will play a key leadership role—supporting engineering delivery, growing team capabilities, and aligning technology efforts with company’s mission.
You’ll work closely with tech leads and product stakeholders to drive high-impact projects. You will also serve as a mentor, motivator, and force multiplier for your team—ensuring a positive, high-performance environment while staying close to the code when needed. This is a leadership role that demands technical acumen, people-first management, and strategic thinking.

• Be technically hands-on and capable of providing technical direction, design input, and code-level support when required.

• Work closely with project leads to drive large-scale projects in a self-starter, independent manner.

• Handle production incidents in partnership with support teams—lead root cause analysis and ensure post-mortem documentation and action.

• Propose and track key quality metrics and foster a strong culture of testing, reliability, and maintainability.

• Demonstrate strong interest and motivation to understand the business domain, logic, and rules, with a problem-solving mindset focused on real-world use cases and systems.

• Be deeply invested in the project’s success—actively look for opportunities to improve engineering processes and the employee experience.

• Represent engineering in stakeholder meetings—communicate project progress, risks, technical challenges, and team health.

• Select, onboard, and retain team members that align with Phil’s goals and Leapfrog’s engineering standards.

• Build and nurture a high-performing team culture based on collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.

• Estimate engineering efforts accurately and create realistic implementation schedules and roadmaps. Set delivery expectations to the client.

• Conduct regular feedback and performance reviews, and ensure team members are coached for long-term growth.

• Motivate junior and mid-level developers by supporting their career growth, goal setting, and skill development.

• Regularly monitor and support team engagement, satisfaction, and retention.

• Set the tone for the team—create a positive, productive, and growth-oriented work environment.

• Be a solid team player with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and help the team succeed at all levels.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Node.js, Golang) and experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, or Angular).

• Have a solid understanding of distributed system design and development and software development best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to lead distributed teams and collaborate across time zones.

• Experience with stakeholder management and aligning engineering execution with business priorities.

• A passion for mentoring and growing developers into strong contributors and future leaders.

• Experience handling production support, root-cause analysis, and driving systemic fixes.

• Familiarity with metrics-driven development, process improvement, and technical due diligence.

• Prior exposure to the healthcare, pharmacy, or health-tech space is a plus.
  

🌞 Life at Leapfrog:

• Work with talented engineers and remarkable professionals in Nepal, the US and Europe, building state-of-the-art digital health products.

• Have an amazing career growth plan with support from experienced mentors and unlimited learning opportunities.

• Be a part of an experienced team—apply the best industry practices, get mentored by experienced professionals and be ready to mentor the new ones.

• Get exposure to clients who are leading entrepreneurs and startups from Silicon Valley.

• Your work will be at the cutting edge of healthcare innovation and make a difference in the lives of thousands of people worldwide.

• You will get the flexibility to work remotely or in the office— we value accountable freedom.

• Get growth opportunities, not just in your work. We organize various internal initiatives where you can be a part of a bigger learning community with webinars, Knowledge Sharing Sessions (KSS), and internal conferences.

• Be a part of a safe workplace where it’s okay to fail fast— get constructive feedback and grow as you move ahead.

• Get recognized for your work and all the changes you will make. We always look for, NO, create opportunities to celebrate efforts, play games, and have fun together!

• You will have a lot of fun at Leapfrog— there’ll never be a dull day.

🎁 Benefits and perks:

We believe our people are our greatest strength. And with perks and benefits, we intend to offer everything our people need to do their best while maintaining a healthy balance between work and personal life.

Daily Work Support

• 🏠 Hybrid work: Flexibility to work from office or home

• 💻 Support for resources: Get internet and laptop allowance monthly, and request resources for convenient WFH

• 📆 5-day workweek: Take the weekend off and come back refreshed on Monday

• 🍔 Food: Eat healthy food while you’re here.

Professional Growth

• 📚 'Growth mindset' fund: Investment in your post-grad degree, learning opportunities, and career growth

• 👶 Child scholarship: Scholarships for your child in selected schools

• 📈 Bi-annual bonus: Get timely festival and company bonus

• 💸 Advance salary: Request salary in advance

Work/Life Balance

• ✈️ Paid time-offs: Annual, sick, compensation, and bereavement leaves

• 🍼 Maternity leave: 3 months of paid leave, 1 month of unpaid leave, and 90 days of reduced workload

• 🐣 Paternity leave: 11 days of paid paternity leave and reduced workload after

• 💊 Menstruation leave: 6 days of paid menstruation leave annually

We take care of you

• 🌿 Your well-being: Company-funded counseling services from certified therapists as well as covid care services.

• 💰 Retirement fund: Social security fund with health and accidental insurance.

Celebrating your efforts

• 🎉 Engagement and Events: Team lunch/dinner, company outing, and festival celebrations with your favorite co-workers!

• 😎 Exposure: Visit and work in the States and build better client rapport.

• 💖 Recognition: In-house awards, appreciation platforms, and 5th-anniversary gifts!