Engineering Manager

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, supporting their day-to-day effectiveness, technical growth, career development, and long-term goals.
• Serve as the technical leader for your team, establishing technical direction and ensuring engineers make sound architectural and software design decisions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of your team's systems and technical domain, providing meaningful guidance on architecture, implementation strategy, scalability, reliability, security, and operational readiness.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps, sequence initiatives, identify dependencies, and develop realistic short- and long-term delivery plans.
• Translate product and business objectives into clear technical strategies, ensuring the team understands not only what it is building but why and how the pieces fit together.
• Lead the technical planning and execution of complex initiatives from initial discovery and design through implementation, release, and production operation.
• Work with engineers and technical leaders to ensure appropriate investment in platform health, technical debt, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and developer efficiency alongside product priorities.
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery constraints early, and work with Product and Engineering leadership to make informed tradeoffs and adjust plans when necessary.
• Drive accountability for team commitments while creating an environment where risks and challenges are surfaced early and addressed constructively.
• Coordinate with other Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and technical leaders to manage cross-team dependencies and ensure architectural consistency across the broader platform.
• Establish and evolve engineering practices and architectural standards that address the unique complexities of LeafLink's business while complementing broader organizational standards.
• Improve team effectiveness by using delivery metrics, retrospectives, operational data, and qualitative feedback to identify bottlenecks and drive meaningful improvements.
• Ensure the team maintains a healthy, well-understood backlog with sufficient technical discovery and refinement to support predictable execution.
• Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting, providing technical leadership during complex incidents and ensuring systemic improvements are identified and implemented.
• Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent while building an inclusive environment where engineers can do their best work.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and creating measurable impact through technical direction, people development, and effective execution.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture, system design, and implementation decisions without needing to personally own every line of code.
• A proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through successful production delivery.
• Experience developing engineers across multiple career stages, including coaching senior engineers and helping technical leaders expand their influence and impact.
• Strong experience with modern full-stack application development, including frontend applications, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and data stores.
• Experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, including technologies such as React and Node.js.
• Experience designing, building, or leading teams responsible for service-oriented, API-driven, event-driven, or distributed architectures.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, asynchronous processing, messaging systems, third-party integrations, and transactional workflows.
• Experience incrementally modernizing legacy systems while continuing to deliver customer and business value.
• Experience balancing product delivery with investments in technical debt, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Strong delivery and project leadership skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk identification, estimation, sequencing, and cross-functional coordination.
• Experience using delivery and operational metrics to identify patterns, improve team effectiveness, and increase predictability without reducing engineering work to simplistic productivity measurements.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and modern delivery practices, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with eCommerce, B2B marketplaces, financial systems, or other complex transactional domains.