[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Sunrise Group

Role Description

You will join at a moment where the engineering organization is scaling and needs a second Engineering Manager. You will lead 6 to 10 engineers across 2 to 3 product squads, reporting directly to the CTO. You own your squads: the people, the staffing, and the delivery, and you share product outcomes with your Product counterparts. Each squad has a Tech Lead who owns technical feasibility and task breakdown, supported by a transverse Principal Engineer. You are a technical manager: you stay close enough to the code and the designs to ask the right questions, push great engineering, and help your squads keep raising the bar.

• Lead and develop a team of 6 to 10 engineers across 2 to 3 product squads.
• Run 1:1s, give honest feedback, own performance and promotion decisions, and build development plans against our engineering ladder.
• Own delivery for your squads: what gets committed, who works on what, and whether it lands.
• Challenge scope and dates with Product, with an explicit mandate to refuse commitments the team cannot sustainably meet.
• Protect long-term velocity: own the capacity allocation for tech health and platform quality.
• Hire: partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close engineers.
• Run technical interviews yourself and hold the hiring bar.
• Raise the technical bar: stay close to the code and designs where it matters most.
• Work closely with Tech Leads and the Principal Engineer, who own technical feasibility and task breakdown in their scope.
• Champion modern, AI-augmented engineering practices and continuous improvement of how the team works.
• Stay deeply immersed in product and business context: direct stakeholder relationships, presence in squad rituals, and manage cross-squad dependencies.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years managing software engineers in a dedicated management role.
• 5+ years as a software engineer before moving into management, including senior-level ownership of production systems.
• Track record of shipping and operating production web products, with enough technical depth to challenge designs and estimates credibly (our stack: React, Django, GCP).
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design in an empowered-squad model.
• Hands-on with AI-assisted engineering tooling, and opinionated about where it helps and where it does not.
• Fluent English (working language); French is a plus.
• Genuine interest in sleep, health, and helping people better understand and improve their well-being.

Company Description

Dreem Health / Sunrise is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds and are committed to building a workplace where everyone feels included and respected. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.