Software Engineering Manager

Who we are

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people. Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!

Your role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading a full stack or backend team focused on one of the key opportunities for Playlist.

You will:

• Empower your engineering team to deliver a high level of technical quality and business impact.
• Recruit a diverse team of engineers that are amongst the best in the industry, from outreach to closing.
• Manage a team of engineers and help develop their careers with stretch responsibilities and excellent feedback.
• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions for your team.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Playlist's engineering management team.

About the right team member

You are an experienced engineer turned successful people leader who is passionate about creating impactful and high-quality web applications. You have deep experience in at least one aspect of developing a world class web application and you can manage a high performing team through the entire process.

You’ll thrive in this role with experience in:

• 3+ years of directly managing a full stack or backend engineering team of at least 6 people.
• Experience shipping high quality websites or mobile applications.
• You have established the architecture and best practices for web or mobile applications and their backends.
• You have a proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, develop and execute.