# Senior Manager / Director of Engineering, Consumer

**Company:** [Nourish](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nourish)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, React Native, mobile platforms, AI, System Design, Observability, reliability, Scalability, okrs
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads Nourish’s consumer engineering organization, setting technical and product strategy while managing multiple teams, hiring and developing engineers, and remaining hands-on with architecture and code. Requires substantial software engineering and engineering management experience, strong product judgment, and proficiency with modern full-stack technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 8–12+ engineers across multiple teams with strong technical ownership.
- Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, calibration, and performance management.
- Scale the team through recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
- Stay hands-on through architecture, pair programming, coding, code reviews, and on-call.
- Partner with product and design to write requirements, shape roadmaps, scope work, plan sprints, and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Drive thoughtful decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
- Establish team rituals, including sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
- Set the technical, product, and organizational strategy for the consumer experience.
- Build an AI-powered health companion delivering personalized, proactive guidance.
- Evolve the care model by putting more technology in the loop while preserving patient outcomes and trust.
- Partner with executive, product, design, clinical, and analytics leaders on long-range planning and investment decisions.
- Design an organization that can grow into multiple consumer pods without losing speed, quality, or accountability.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies.
- 4+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
- Experience hiring engineers and managing performance, promotions, and career development.
- Technical ability to pair program and contribute directly when needed.
- Exceptional product judgment, including writing PRDs, critiquing or mocking designs, sizing opportunities, and progressing independently.
- High proficiency with React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, or similar modern stacks.
- Experience shipping and owning production systems in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Ability to balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clear communication.

## Nice to Have
- Experience leading multiple teams or managers.
- Experience with AI-powered consumer products.
- React Native and mobile platform experience.
- Healthcare or regulated technology experience.
- Experience scaling an engineering organization through rapid growth.

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