I had to take a year off lifting for work and family but thinking of getting back into it.
Is stronglifts considered a good program?
If not, what do you guys recommend.

Yeah its a well known novice program. Make sure to use progressive overload and eat right, your muscle memory will do most of the work.

It's a solid program and I still run it on occasion.

Welcome back!

Yes it’s great for beginners.

Eventually doing 5x5 squats and other compounds every workout will bury you. At that point I’d recommend hitting a top set followed by backoff sets, rather than going for a heavy balls-out 5 sets across trying to add weight every workout. When I was running Stronglifts this started to bury me around the 250ish squat / 200ish bench mark. YMMV.

An example would be, rather than hitting 300lbs on squat for 5x5 sets across, you’d hit it for 1 set of 5, then back down to 280 for another set of 5, then back down to 260 for another set of 5. This is much easier on recovery and allows for longer term improvement. Not to mention how easier it is mentally. A true 5x5 on squats can often feel like going to war when the weights get heavy enough.

IMO the beauty of Stronglifts is it helps novices rapidly build the neural patterns and efficiency on the compound lifts due to the high volume with a fairly heavy weight. Because the reps are moderately low, you’re less likely to get “junk reps” as fatigue sets in. No one goes for a true 15 rep max and has beautiful form on the final rep. 5 reps promotes good form while getting accustomed to lifting heavy weight. And the volume allows for decently fast size gains.

If you’re interested in physique, I’d recommend adding in some isolation work. Throwing in a couple sets of curls and lateral raises isn’t going to cause you to spontaneously combust and lose all your gains.