# Pricing Engineering Manager

**Company:** [SpotHero](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/spothero)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $152k – $190k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Honeycomb, Redshift, Airflow
**Posted:** 2026-03-23

> Leads a full-stack engineering squad focused on pricing systems, managing team delivery, growth, and technical quality while partnering with Product, Data, and Ops. Requires 5+ years software engineering in distributed systems and 3+ years managing engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Own team execution and delivery: roadmap planning, goal setting, and shipping well-tested, usable products.
- Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, including quality, observability, testing, security, and performance.
- Build partnerships across Product, Data, and Ops to align on priorities and drive business outcomes.
- Develop team members through mentorship, coaching, and thoughtful career conversations.
- Contribute to org-wide engineering practices: on-call readiness, DORA metrics, onboarding, and more.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on distributed systems in Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- 3+ years of experience managing engineers, ideally on small, fast-moving squads.
- Clear communication, a bias toward action, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- A track record of building resilient systems and leading teams through scaling challenges.
- Comfortable working in our stack or learning quickly: Java/Python/Go, React, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with backend development

## Tech Stack

**Backend:** Java, Python, Kotlin, Postgres
**Frontend:** React/Redux
**DevOps:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Honeycomb
**Data:** Redshift, Airflow, Looker

## Compensation

Illinois: $152,000 - $190,000 base salary plus discretionary bonus.
Ontario: CA$148,800 - $186,000 base salary plus discretionary bonus.

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