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Engineering Manager

250k – 300kNew York, NYOnsite
Summary

Lead a team of 5-8 engineers building consumer and marketplace products, balancing 70% people management with 30% hands-on technical contribution including architecture and code reviews.

About the role

What You’ll Achieve

  • Lead and grow a pod of 5–8 engineers through mentorship, performance management, and technical direction
  • Identify high-slope talent, make hard decisions on low performers, and establish & execute against a clear hiring strategy
  • Scrutinize and iterate on every process and technology decision, balancing velocity with long-term system health
  • Align with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize non-customer facing work (infra, dev ops) against feature improvements
  • Actively participate in RFC reviews, architectural discussions, and system design conversations
  • Challenge Staff-level decisions when assumptions, tradeoffs, or risks warrant it
  • Raise and maintain a high bar for code quality, reliability, and performance; implement and enforce quality processes
  • Collaborate with leadership & product management to translate product strategy into clear technical plans and milestones
  • Proactively introduce and evaluate new technologies, including modern AI tools that increase velocity and developer experience
  • Model urgency, ownership, and technical rigor as a trusted technical leader

Who You Are

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience (Senior Engineer level before management, ideally Staff)
  • Actively program outside of work and passionate about latest technologies
  • Proven experience leading technically complex, consumer-facing or marketplace products with millions of users
  • Deep experience with system design and large-scale production systems
  • Track record of mentoring engineers through real technical work with clear examples of up-leveling talent
  • Strong product intuition and comfort navigating ambiguity, making tradeoffs, and aligning engineering work to product and business goals
  • Excellent communication skills; able to command a room and run meetings while fostering collaborative environments
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, founder-led environment with high expectations

Tech Stack

  • Frontend: React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, tRPC, Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
  • Infrastructure: AWS (CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, Lambda, ECS, Fargate, API Gateway, Aurora), GCP Cloud Run, Terraform, Docker
Skills
ReactNext.jsReact NativeTypeScriptNode.jsJavaSpring BootPostgreSQLAWSTerraform
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