Fora is looking to empower a new generation of travel entrepreneurs by designing smart, scalable tools that make trip planning seamless and impactful. The Engineering Manager will lead a team to build innovative features and enhance existing functionality to achieve this goal.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in engineering management roles with a proven track record of driving successful product deliveries and team growth.
- 8+ years experience in web systems development.
- Strong technical acumen, with experience making informed architectural decisions, addressing technical debt, and setting robust engineering standards.
- First-principles thinker who carefully evaluates each problem, thoughtfully choosing between established best practices and bespoke solutions, especially when designing team processes and norms.
Responsibilities
- Guide architecture and technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and proactively anticipating future issues to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
- Drive operational excellence across reliability, performance, cost-efficiency, design consistency, and maintainable code.
- Perform hands-on technical work, contributing to code reviews, debugging, and implementing functionality.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to shape product strategy, ensuring that your team builds the right solutions that drive the highest impact on the business.
- Improve team efficiency and engineering velocity, ensuring your team delivers value quickly without compromising on quality, maintainability, or reliability.
- Participate in hiring processes and attracting top engineering talent to support the continued growth of your team and our organization.
- Mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, and support direct reports to help them overcome challenges and deliver on ambitious goals.
Other
- Promote high team engagement, employee happiness, continuous skill development, and professional growth.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, effectively manage performance, and build highly motivated, engaged teams.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, including the ability to break down complex projects, anticipate risks, and deliver consistently high-quality outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders and facilitate productive, drama-free project launches.
- Proven recruiting experience, capable of evaluating engineering candidates effectively and representing the company positively.
- A collaborative, empathetic leadership style that emphasizes humility, openness to feedback, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort working in an early- to mid-stage startup environment where ambiguity and pace are part of the fun.
- You must have authorization to work in the United States. Fora is unable to assist applicants with obtaining work authorization.
- BIPOC and traditionally underrepresented candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
