# Engineering Manager, Consumer Core

**Company:** [Upside](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upside)
**Location:** Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Washington, DC
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $185k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** engineering management, kotlin multiplatform, Python, Java, AWS, mobile development, API Development, serverless, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Generative AI, Mixpanel, runway
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Lead the Consumer Core full-stack team at Upside, combining technical contributions with people-first leadership to drive operational excellence, scale foundational systems in KMP, Python and Java, and support consumer and partnerships applications. Requires 3+ years engineering management experience, hands-on mobile/API expertise, and passion for AI integration.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Create a safe, collaborative team environment by naming problems and inviting open discussion.
- Operate with a first-team mindset, leaning in to help important areas regardless of domain.
- Raise the bar by identifying and influencing improvements in quality, performance, speed of execution, and engineering standards.
- Grow talent by coaching engineers, recognizing achievements, and helping them develop skills.
- Set clarity and empower autonomy by articulating expectations so teams can operate independently.
- Define and maintain the team’s domain boundaries across authentication, event architecture, user research and analytical workflows, internal mobile tooling, app security support, mobile FinOps, and cross-team repos.
- Champion system-level quality by addressing gaps in reliability, scalability, security, and performance across the app and API stack.
- Ensure the consumer app platform is secure, cost-efficient, production-ready, with self-service, repeatable, and trusted workflows.
- Oversee team AI adoption and exploration strategy for KMP, Python, and Java platforms.
- Act as primary point of contact for internal partners (Product, Design, Security, Data Science).
- Represent the Consumer Core team in cross-functional planning, technical councils, and roadmap discussions.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally across mobile or distributed API domains.
- Thrive in scaling teams, elevating systems, and solving ambiguity.
- Able to dive into deep technical challenges and steer mobile and API infrastructure (AWS preferred), analytical and SDLC tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Runway).
- Recent hands-on experience with mobile and API development, including best practices such as serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, and Clean architecture patterns.
- Value clarity over consensus and help teams stay aligned in high-change, high-growth conditions.
- Passionate about integrating generative AI into team workflows and engineering processes to improve delivery speed, quality, developer productivity, and continuous improvement.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Python, Java.
- Hands-on with AWS, Mixpanel, Runway.
- Familiarity with serverless, event-driven architectures, REST, microservices, MVI, Clean architecture.
- Interest in AI adoption for engineering processes.

## Compensation and Benefits
- US base salary range: $185000 - $215000 + equity + benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1.
- Equity (ISOs).
- 401(k) program.
- Family planning programs + paid parental leave.
- Physical fitness and wellness memberships.
- Emotional and mental health support programs.
- Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + annual week-long Winter Break.
- Flexible work environment.
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Learning and Development stipend.
- Transparent culture.

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