• The Non-Negotiables:
• People management and hard conversations — a proven track record of giving direct feedback, managing performance (including underperformance), and growing engineers, across seniority levels and employment models, from a tech lead to contractors, with clear communication up and down
• Delivery ownership — you turn priorities into a plan, keep the team shipping predictably, and surface risks and tradeoffs early, so the team is never the bottleneck
• Cross functional collaboration — you can work across multiple teams and verticals to drive results
• Technical depth — enough to understand our systems, judge the tradeoffs in technical plans, hold the quality bar, and earn the respect of senior engineers; you don't need to be the best coder on the team
• The Nice-to-Haves:
• 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
• Experience with our tech stack. React, Node, AWS, SQL
• Player coach mentality, willing to roll up sleeves and code
• YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF…
• You give direct feedback, and you receive it well
• You keep a team shipping without becoming its bottleneck
• You can say no to work the team doesn't have the capacity to take on
• You grow people deliberately, with a plan, not by accident
• You partner easily with Product and leadership, and know when to push back, rather than working in a silo