# Engineering Manager, Growth Activation

**Company:** [Nourish](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nourish)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Full-Stack Development, System Design, Observability, Reliability Engineering, Scalability, Product Experimentation, Matching Systems, Recommendation Systems, Amplitude, Ai Products, On-Call
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads and develops a 4–5-person engineering team building patient matching, activation, retention, and reactivation experiences. The hands-on manager should bring 6+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years of management experience, strong product judgment, and proficiency with modern full-stack technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 4–5 engineers 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 decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
- Establish team rituals, including sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
- Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Build a high-velocity experimentation culture with short iteration cycles and clear measures of impact.
- Improve patient–provider matching across patient goals and preferences, clinician supply, insurance constraints, outcomes, and business performance.
- Move activation and retention metrics through rigorous analysis and iterative product improvements.
- Own lifecycle experiences spanning first appointment, notifications, engagement, habit formation, retention, and reactivation.
- Partner with Acquisition, Billing, Provider Supply, product, design, and analytics to deliver a seamless end-to-end patient journey.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies.
- 2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
- Experience hiring engineers and managing performance, promotions, and career development.
- Technical ability to pair program with the team and contribute directly when needed.
- Exceptional product judgment, including writing PRDs, critiquing or mocking designs, sizing opportunities, and making progress 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
- Consumer growth or marketplace experience.
- Experimentation platforms.
- Matching or recommendation systems.
- Lifecycle engagement and retention experience.
- Amplitude or similar analytics tools.
- AI-powered products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time role.

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