Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Favor Delivery is a company focused on high-touch logistics, powered by their technology platform. As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to build applications and services that connect customers, Runners, and support teams, while ensuring quality and iterative development across all engineering disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of individual contributors including responsibility for 1:1s, giving regular feedback, performance management and career development conversations
- Empower the team to deliver their very best
- Facilitate goal-level creation for the broader function and work with other managers to support setting of team level goals
- Understand the fundamentals of the business and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with the business opportunities
- Identify and implement enhancements to standards, processes, and tools
- Evaluate new technology solutions and partnerships to accelerate the engineering and product organization
- Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process
- Participate in architectural design and coordinate with other software engineering managers as needed for a consistent approach within the suite of applications
- Consistently strive to improve collaboration and communications
- Partner with leaders to identify and plan capabilities required to meet customer needs
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to determine priorities and impact
Skills
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams
- Possess a strong, high-level understanding of modern, cloud-native software development across the entire lifecycle—from mobile frontends to distributed backend microservices. You can confidently guide technical discussions, challenge architectural decisions, and unblock engineers across a diverse stack
- Ability to oversee cross-platform engineering teams spanning mobile (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin) backend (Micronaut/Kotlin, PHP, Kafka) and modern web frontends (React, TypeScript, Next.js), supported by a strong foundation in modern enterprise Ops tech stacks including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Elasticsearch
- Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in the principles of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks. You will leverage these metrics to champion developer experience, streamline delivery pipelines, and elevate code quality
- A passionate advocate and practitioner of Lean and Agile methodologies, dedicated to continuous improvement, eliminating delivery bottlenecks, and empowering teams through autonomous, iterative development
- Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects
- Experience setting business expectations and scope as well as providing technology recommendations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams about engineering topics such as system architecture, API design, product roadmaps, and resourcing
- Ability to work with and lead other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
- Excellent problem solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills
- Track record of timely delivery of high quality software
- Passion for mentorship, guidance, and direct person to person interactions that create strong bonds among teams and individuals
- Ability to care deeply about people and help them become their best selves
- A love to learn and teach equally well and possess a growth mindset
- Ability to balance management and individual contributor responsibilities when needed and provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests
- Experience in both a high-growth startup and growing medium sized company is a plus
Benefits
- Premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- 401(k) options
- Favor delivery fee credit
- H-E-B discounts
- Unlimited PTO for salaried employees
- Ample vacation time to all team members
- Intern(al)ships and Learning Labs taught by Favor team members and external facilitators
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Company-wide events
- Happy hours
- Regular connection opportunities
- Accommodations throughout the recruitment process
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