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Senior Engineering Manager

Austin, TXOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Leads a cross-functional frontend-focused product engineering team, mentors engineers, partners with Product and Design to deliver web platform features, and drives technical excellence. Requires 8+ years software engineering with strong frontend foundation and 4+ years management experience at startups.

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Product and Design to define technical direction, scope projects, and deliver high-quality features on fast-moving roadmap.
  • Have the ability to be hands-on; Be able to dive in and write code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions alongside your team.
  • Drive engineering excellence and establish best practices in code quality, testing, performance, and accessibility for our web platform.
  • Own hiring for your team: identify gaps, engage with strong candidates from your network, and build a world-class engineering culture.
  • Communicate clearly with senior leadership on team progress, risks, and opportunities.

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in modern frontend development.
  • 4+ years in an engineering management or team lead role, with a track record of growing engineers, scaling teams, and delivering results.
  • Experience at an early-stage startup. You understand the scrappiness required, the pace expected, and how to build durable systems amid ambiguity.
  • Strong technical judgment: you can assess tradeoffs, push back when needed, and make pragmatic decisions under pressure.
  • Excellent communication skills, allowing you to translate technical complexity for non-engineers and align stakeholders across product, design, and business.
  • A genuine bias for action and ownership. You don’t wait for permission, you spot problems and solve them.
  • Experience building and shipping production applications with a high bar for performance, reliability, and user experience.

Nice to Have

  • Hands-on experience with Vue.js, you’ve shipped production apps with it and have opinions on how to use it well.
  • Experience in fintech, proptech, or a regulated/security-conscious industry.
  • Familiarity with backend systems (Node.js, APIs, databases), you don’t need to be a backend engineer, but context helps.
  • Prior experience scaling an engineering team from 5 to 15 engineers.
  • Experience and perspective on how to leverage AI tooling in regulated environments with sensitive data.
  • Track record of building design systems, component libraries, or platform-level frontend Infrastructure.

Perks & Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Equity compensation
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k) match
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Fully-subsidized downtown parking
  • Weekly lunch stipend
  • Full access to onsite gym and locker rooms
  • Monthly team get-togethers (Lunches, social events, sports outings, etc)
Skills
frontend developmentVue.jsNode.jsJavaScriptcode reviewdesign systemscomponent librariesAPIsdatabasesarchitectural decisions