Engineering Manager

About The Role

Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to drive execution of complex initiatives, and contribute directly to our codebase and technical direction. You’ll work closely with product, design, analytics, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact features with strong ownership and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster a high-performing engineering pod with strong technical ownership.
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback cycles and career development.
• Help scale the team through recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Contribute directly to architectural decisions and core system design.
• Participate in coding, code reviews, on-call, and hands-on implementation across the stack.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, quality, and automation.
• Partner with product and design to define requirements, plan sprints, and execute deliverables.
• Collaborate across functions to solve meaningful, data-driven problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Ensure reliable releases and maintainability of core systems.

We’d Love To Hear From You If You Have

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies.
• 2+ years of experience leading and developing engineering teams in a scaling environment.
• Are highly proficient with React, Typescript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, or similar modern stacks.
• Are excited to stay hands-on with code and technical execution.
• Can balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clarity in ambiguous contexts.
• Are passionate about building impactful products in an early-stage, mission-driven company.

Nice to Have’s

• AI Use. Comfort with AI workflows and building AI products
• Startup or Scale Up experience. You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
• Interviewing familiarity. We’re quickly growing our Engineering function and expect our Engineers to help us do so!
• Energized by our mission. Our mission defines everything we do, we need engineers hungry to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.