A Place for Mom is looking for a Senior Manager to lead and grow their engineering team focused on the B2B platform, which is being built from scratch. This platform is crucial for their agency partners (external customers) to manage leads, run reports, and gain insights to grow their business. The role involves shaping this new ecosystem, including the partner portal, lead delivery, reporting dashboards, and tools for agencies.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams building web-scale or platform products.
- Experience leading teams developing modern, high traffic applications and backend services, preferably using Node/TypeScript
- Understanding of API design, event streaming (Redis/Kafka), and real-time communication systems.
- Understanding of data collection and storage methodologies and tools like MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Elasticsearch
- Understanding of AWS Services, Docker Containers, and CI/CD
- Experience working in Agile environments, with a strong grasp of SDLC and continuous delivery.
- Exposure to AI/ML-integrated products or large-scale personalization systems.
Responsibilities
- Encourage your team to experiment and innovate with new technologies, build proof of concept, and present the results to your peers and leadership across the Tech organization
- Partner with other directors and tech leads across Tech to understand cross-team dependencies, validate feature proposals, and drive system improvements.
- Responsible for the team’s technical strategy and roadmap - driving towards business outcomes and tracking success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering Managers, Product Partners, and stakeholders and aligning work to achieving those metrics.
- Work closely with Product Partners and Stakeholders to ensure that the company objectives are met on time while simultaneously balancing necessary engineering requirements and influencing the overall technical direction and user experience of our website.
- Influence culture and team norms—helping the B2B organization mature its engineering and delivery practices with empathy, curiosity, and grit.
- Leverage your technology experience to direct your team in evaluating and selecting the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation.
- Guiding engineers through early build and rapid iteration.
Other
- This is a rare opportunity to help shape a product from the ground up, working in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment where ownership and experimentation are encouraged.
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and is excited to build something lasting.
- You’ll lead a small but mighty team that challenges the status quo and takes real ownership of the product experiences we deliver to our partners.
- You’re a builder at heart — someone who loves finding opportunity in complexity and unclear situations, and has a track record of turning undefined processes into well-oiled systems.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills—you inspire trust, create clarity, and drive change.
