[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager and Tech Lead @Propel

Role Description

We’re in search of a strong player-coach (Senior) Engineering Manager and Tech Lead for our Marketplace team. We launched the Propel Marketplace to connect our ~5M monthly active users to products, services, and exclusive offers from leading brands across grocery and retail, healthcare, telecoms, financial services, and auto via the Propel app.

We’re looking for someone who is empathetic, a skilled facilitator, and enjoys team building! We want someone who is excited about championing our efforts around hiring, building, and developing a diverse engineering team as our product continues to scale. This role will be a hybrid Engineering Manager/Individual Contributor role - you’ll act as the team’s technical lead (designing the system) as well as managing 3-5 teammates across multiple sub-teams and helping them align and build out a vision.

What you’ll do:

• Set technical vision for the marketplace team and build a system that serves helpful offers to our users efficiently and effectively
• Manage and coach 3-5 reports across multiple sub-teams and help them advance in their careers
• Develop team level processes to foster consistency and collaboration in our remote-first company culture
• Help sustain efficient cross functional collaboration between engineering, product, design, and data and be an advocate for change in the system when necessary
• Ensure smooth onboarding for new engineers and help a growing team iterate on the process

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and developing web or mobile applications especially ad tech or consumer products
• 2+ years of experience managing engineers of various levels in a start-up remote first environment
• Strong AI skills and the ability to think systematically about when and where to use AI most effectively
• A growth mindset, curiosity, and the desire to really understand how our Marketplace business operates
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Passion for making a difference in the lives of our users
• Experience with or knowledge of government services, particularly safety net services like SNAP, WIC, TANF, SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, Section 8, is a plus

Requirements

• Strong player-coach mentality
• Empathetic and skilled facilitator
• Excited about championing diversity in the engineering team

Benefits

• An immediate opportunity to make an impact on our growing team
• A get-stuff-done and fun and caring culture
• Meaningful work and a strong shared sense of mission
• A dog-friendly office based in Downtown Brooklyn (or the opportunity to work remotely!)
• Fair, equitable, and competitive salaries
• Salary range for the Engineer Manager position is $200,000 - $250,000, depending on experience and interview performance
• Willing to uplevel the title to Senior Manager and expand bands for the right candidate based on experience and interview performance
• Equity and excellent benefits come with this position