Engineering Manager, Fullstack
$220,000–$280,000 year
On-siteLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Own one or more business domains end-to-end, including product outcomes, engineering execution, and ongoing operational health. Hire, grow, and retain a strong team while setting clear performance standards. Stay hands-on as a player-coach by driving architecture reviews, shipping production code, and responding to incidents. Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to shape roadmaps and transform business priorities into sequenced work. Continuously improve the developer lifecycle across planning, design, code review, testing, deployment, and incident response. Lead distributed systems in production across multiple sites and environments.
Required Qualifications
- 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading product engineering teams in production
- strong full-stack engineering background
- A history of owning business-critical product domains, including technical strategy, prioritization, delivery, and operational responsibility
- Experience hiring, growing, and retaining strong engineers, and running a healthy team
- Real product and customer instinct
- A clear point of view on the developer lifecycle (planning, design, build, ship, operate) and how to make each phase better
- Systems thinking: you understand how services, data flows, and team boundaries interact, and use that to prevent bottlenecks and scaling issues before they happen
- Experience leading or contributing to distributed systems in production, ideally across multiple sites, environments, or regions
- Technical credibility. You can read, review, and write production code, lead architecture discussions, and earn the trust of senior engineers
- Strong communication. You can align engineers, product partners, operators, and leadership, drive decisions, and keep people informed
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with high stakes and short iteration cycles
- U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Desired Qualifications
- aerospace, defense, or manufacturing experience
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