Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Outside Interactive, Inc. is a premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offering best-in-class content and experiences. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Media business to manage a team of engineers focused on unifying content platforms and creating new digital experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing, inclusive engineering team through strong relationships, regular 1:1s, and clear career goal setting
- Architect and develop critical features for our media platform, directly impacting user experience across millions of active users
- Guide the team in building and maintaining modern web applications using PHP and React within a WordPress ecosystem (including headless WordPress with GraphQL)
- Establish and optimize the processes for the full feature lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, deployment) enabling the team to build reliable, automated systems and focus on the next high-impact problem
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, customer support, and other engineering teams to unblock their roadmaps while maintaining the integrity of our foundational systems. Drive alignment across teams on critical dependencies, technical direction, and roadmap priorities—this is as important as shipping features yourself
- Prioritize work based on company revenue needs and long-term platform health
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing build pipelines, and proactively surfacing reliability issues before they impact users. Approach each challenge with curiosity—dig into why systems fail and how to prevent future incidents
Skills
- 3+ years of people leadership experience
- 7+ years of web application development experience
- Experience leading remote or distributed teams
- Strong background in React, Next, PHP and modern web architectures
- Comfortable operating across the full stack and making pragmatic architectural decisions
- Experience building high-performance headless CMS or micro-frontend architectures
- Experience with React, Next.js, and GraphQL APIs
- Experience working in AWS and/or Vercel
- Track record of reducing incident response time or improving system reliability metrics
Benefits
- Health care
- Vision
- Dental
- Retirement
- Flexible Time Away
- Sick leave
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