As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead multiple engineering teams (typically 4 squads, ~20 engineers) across a single technical domain. You're accountable for the following:
- Domain-level technical strategy — Work with product leadership and your teams to define a 12–18 month technical vision for your domain.
- Team health and growth — Build an environment where engineers thrive: hiring, developing ICs, mentoring junior managers, and creating psychological safety.
- Delivery excellence — Guide your teams through discovery, planning, and execution using small-batch delivery and continuous feedback loops.
- Business impact — Translate product objectives into technical solutions; quantify and communicate the impact of your domain's work.
- Cross-functional leadership — Work closely with product, design, and business partners to resolve ambiguity and drive alignment.
- Technical decision-making — Guide your teams on system design, architecture, and engineering practices while maintaining the company's standards for scalability, security, and performance.
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Requirements
- Leadership & people management
- 4+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience managing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineers — we care about your track record of developing people, not just technical skills.
- Comfort with cross-functional leadership: working with product, design, business partners, and other engineering teams.
- Emotional intelligence: you navigate ambiguity, handle conflict constructively, and create psychological safety for your teams.
- Technical depth
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in production systems.
- Deep understanding of at least one of: distributed systems, backend systems, data platforms, mobile platforms, or web-scale infrastructure.
- Proven ability to work across diverse technology stacks — we care that you've made architecture decisions that matter, not that you've used every specific tool.
- Hands-on understanding of XP practices: TDD, pair programming, continuous refactoring, and trunk-based development (or strong willingness to learn and lead the company's approach).
- Engineering sense
- You think about non-functional requirements: scalability, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and security — not just feature delivery.
- You've navigated the tradeoffs between speed and technical debt; you know when to optimize and when to simplify.
- You've led or been part of domain-level decisions (tech stack migrations, architectural changes, platform initiatives).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading multiple teams or a domain in a high-growth environment.
- Exposure to eXtreme Programming practices (XP culture is learnable but experience is valuable).
- Background in marketplace, delivery, or logistics optimization.
- Experience mentoring or developing other engineering managers.
- Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
