Senior Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team: Hire, mentor, and empower engineers at all levels while fostering a culture grounded in trust, teamwork, clear expectations, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Tackle and resolve the toughest challenges: Own end-to-end delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives by coordinating cross-functional stakeholders—product, editorial, monetization strategy, and individual contributors—to drive measurable business outcomes.
• Define and communicate our technical vision: Establish the roadmap for critical systems, core product abstractions, and developer productivity tools, ensuring every engineer understands our priorities for quality, speed, and scalability.
• Champion organizational adoption of AI: Lead process improvements, structural shifts, and adoption of AI-powered tools, products and agents—guiding teams and leaders through transitions so they can embrace new ways of working effectively.
• Collaborate on product strategy: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other partners to map out long-term technical and platform goals, then break those goals into actionable milestones with clear success criteria.
• Design, build, and own innovative solutions: Enable your team to architect and develop new platform and product features using modern frameworks (TypeScript, React, Node.js) and AI technologies, taking ownership from prototype through production.
• Ensure architectural robustness: Drive technical design discussions, offer thoughtful guidance on system architecture, and validate that every service we ship is reliable, scalable, and aligned with our business objectives.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase: Balance leadership responsibilities with a genuine passion for coding—contributing code alongside your team to maintain both technical credibility and a deep understanding of our product.

Qualification & Requirements

• Experienced engineering lead: 8+ years in software engineering (incl. 3+ years people management) with a track record of recruiting, scaling, mentoring, and retaining high-performing teams.
• Strategic executor: Customer-obsessed with a bias for action; expertly balances long-, medium-, and short-term trade-offs to drive technical strategy and organizational outcomes.
• Technical expert: Hands-on understanding of modern dev practices (Agile, CI/CD) and architecting scalable, resilient distributed systems.
• Cross-functional partner: Proven collaborator with PMs, designers, and peers to take products from 0 1, managing expectations and delivering impact while fostering transparency and operational excellence.
• Has experience
  • Owning shared product services: authentication, content APIs, ad‑tech, user engagement, personalization.
  • Shipping mobile web experiences: (Next.js, React, Node, TypeScript—plus the leading edge framework that emerges tomorrow).
  • Designing & delivering AI‑powered products: recommendation engines, content‑tagging, AI-assisted newsroom tools, AI dev tools.
  • Crushing performance & Core Web Vitals so ad viewability and subscription conversions soar.
  • Leading, coaching & hiring high‑impact engineers across front‑end, back‑end, DevOps.
  • Championing engineering culture: code quality, observability, threat modeling, blameless retrospectives.

Your Technical Skills Include:

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Front-end & frameworks: Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems (React, Next.js, Express, Node.js).
• Back-end & runtimes: Skilled in REST APIs, containerization (Docker, AWS ECR/ECS/Fargate), and serverless (AWS Lambda, Step Functions).
• Data stores: Strong with relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL); familiarity with NoSQL and column-store databases (e.g., ClickHouse) is a plus.
• Delivery & edge: Hands-on CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild) and CDN/edge computing (Cloudflare).
• Bonus: PHP and WordPress experience.

Benefits

• Health and Dental Benefits
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and online health & wellness resources with Homewood Health
• Scholarship program for employees’ children
• Exclusive employee magazine subscription rates
• Discounted annual GoodLife membership
• Perkopolis Perk Program and employee pricing at major retailers