[Remote] Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thrive Market is an online membership-based market dedicated to making healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop high-quality product features that enhance the e-commerce grocery experience while translating company strategy into technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback, actionable growth plans, and addressing performance issues constructively
• Build and retain a high-performing engineering team owning team-level outcomes and OKRs, creating a culture of accountability, initiative, and continuous improvement
• Partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to define priorities and deliver high-quality features that improve customer experience and drive business outcomes
• Ensure predictable, on-time delivery by establishing clear processes, tracking progress with metrics, and communicating proactively with stakeholders
• Guide technical decisions within your pod, promoting scalable, maintainable, and reliable designs and systems
• Uphold quality standards through code reviews, design reviews, testing, and automation to ensure reliability and customer trust
• Proactively identify opportunities and risks, driving initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness and long-term scalability

Skills

• 2+ years in an engineering management and people leadership role, supervising engineers, conducting performance reviews, mentoring, and managing underperformance
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant technical contributions and ownership of services or components
• Experience delivering software with predictability and quality, including design reviews, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring
• Proven track record of delivering outcomes aligned to business or product goals (OKRs, metrics-based)
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Marketing, etc.), communicating both technical and non-technical perspectives
• Demonstrated ability to guide architecture & design conversations, ensure maintainability and scalability of systems
• Strong organizational and process skills: setting predictable delivery cadence, removing blockers, improving team productivity
• Ownership mindset: ability to proactively identify areas for improvement, take accountability for team outcomes, and drive change
• Technical depth: able to review code/design, understand trade-offs, and influence technical direction even if not coding daily
• Prior experience within scaling engineering orgs (i.e.. evolving processes)
• Domain expertise in e-commerce or similar
• Experience working with legacy systems
• Experience defining and owning quality metrics, reliability, or SLOs/SLIs in production systems
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical transformation (e.g. re-architecture or modernization efforts)
• Experience influencing beyond one's own team—driving initiatives across org
• Background in leading teams to deliver products using Agile principles and Scrum events (sprints, retrospectives, daily standups, etc.)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• 9 Observed Holidays
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
• Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform

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