Senior Engineering Manager, Foundations

About the role

Some of the things you'll do:

• Lead, support, and grow a team of around eight engineers spanning mobile, web, and backend, owning the core platform and infrastructure the wider engineering org builds on
• Drive the team's biggest near-term priorities, including our GraphQL implementation, client data sync, and improving the performance and architecture of core Quo systems
• Balance the demands of a fast-growing product organization against the ongoing need to rewrite and scale our core systems
• Make and guide high-quality technical decisions across multiple domains at once, staying close enough to the technology to earn and keep your team's trust
• Manage trade-offs and prioritization across a diverse portfolio of mobile, web, and backend work
• Partner with peer engineering managers, staff and principal engineers, and adjacent teams such as cloud infrastructure and developer experience to align on platform direction
• Coach and develop a talented, distributed group of engineers

About you

• You've led engineering teams as a manager, ideally with responsibility spanning more than one domain (some combination of mobile, web, and backend)
• You bring deep technical experience and can actively help your team with technical decision-making and system design
• You're strong on system design and have operated at scale or through rapid scaling, whether at a larger company or in a higher-traffic environment, and have felt the stress of growth firsthand
• You're comfortable owning a diverse, multi-threaded portfolio and making clear trade-offs across competing priorities
• You lead with empathy and are effective managing a diverse, distributed team
• You communicate clearly and can hold your own on technical direction with senior stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Experience managing managers (this role is primarily about strong engineering management craft, but management-of-managers experience is a plus)
• Hands-on familiarity with GraphQL, client data sync, mobile platform frameworks such as Kotlin Multiplatform, or CI and testing platforms
• A track record building or scaling platform and core infrastructure teams in a high-growth startup environment

Compensation

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC Metro: $206,000 - $242,000 USD
• All other US Locations: $186,000 - $217,000 USD
• Canada: $189,000 - $222,000 CAD

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