Engineering Manager
The Opportunity
This hire is part of a deliberate organizational investment: our current engineering leader is moving into another role, and we need a strong engineering manager to take full ownership of execution, team health, and technical operations. The company is investing heavily in product-led growth, conversion optimization, and analytics maturity — you will not be administering a backlog, you will be the engine behind all of it.
The engineering team is supported by dedicated Product, DevOps, QA, and a Scrum master.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with Product to align engineering capacity with business priorities, deliver predictable high-quality output across the Rails/React stack, and provide clear estimates and tradeoff analysis to inform roadmap decisions
Build a culture of ownership, transparency, and pragmatic problem-solving — consistent with the team's existing values
Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the team — evaluate, integrate, and establish best practices for AI coding assistants as part of everyday engineering workflows
Own production reliability, uptime, and incident response in partnership with DevOps
Drive ongoing web performance optimization — Core Web Vitals, page load times, and frontend/backend bottleneck identification. This is an active area of investment, not a solved problem.
Invest in the team through regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, and active career development
Qualifications
5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in an engineering management or team lead role
Must be comfortable working with consumer platforms that contain adult themes, mature content, and dating-related content
Strong hands-on background with Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred)
Experience managing teams of 5–15 engineers, including fully remote and distributed teams
Track record of delivering software on predictable cadences in a product-driven environment
Experience managing both full-time employees and contractors as a unified team
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and a point of view on how they change engineering workflows
Clear, direct communication style; comfortable partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, and holds direct reports accountable for results
Preferred
Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer-facing web platforms
Familiarity with analytics tooling (GA4, BigQuery) and feature flagging (ConfigCat or similar)
Experience with observability stacks (Kibana, OpenSearch, ELK, or similar)
Familiarity with containerized deployment workflows (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
Background in organizations navigating growth-stage transitions or evolving product strategy
Experience with telephony or video platforms (WebRTC, Twilio, or similar)
Track record of improving web performance (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, profiling, and resolving frontend/backend bottlenecks)
Comfort building process in a lean environment, where not everything is already defined
Benefits
Fully remote position with two in-person meetings per year
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401K matching program with no vesting period
Flexible Spending Account
Generous PTO plan and 12 company-paid holidays plus your birthday
Work-life balance
Frequent virtual team-building events
Freelance and diverse coworkers