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Sr. Manager, Engineering - Product Platform
Location
United States
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a cross-functional team of Android, Backend, and iOS engineers to drive foundational engineering work that enables product teams and internal teams to deliver exceptional customer value.
The team focuses on outcomes over outputs, prioritizing work based on MFP’s product vision and strategy using data and experimentation.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will:
- Lead a talented team in defining and delivering against quarterly objectives that increase velocity, safety, and effectiveness across product engineering teams.
- Cultivate an environment where engineers thrive in identifying, justifying, and creating solutions that drive meaningful product value.
- Build strong relationships and regularly converse with Engineering and Product leaders across teams to proactively identify collaboration and platform opportunities.
- Balance product platform delivery with foundational improvements to core services and mobile clients, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
- Take a hands-on approach to delivery management, maintaining a healthy backlog, prioritizing technical debt and maintenance work, and ensuring predictable execution.
- Own and elevate engineering quality standards by championing testing practices, fostering continuous improvement, and strengthening delivery rigor.
- Coach and develop engineers through mentorship, performance management, and career growth support, while maintaining strong team health and engagement.
Qualifications
- Meaningful experience managing platform or foundational engineering work in close partnership with Product and cross-functional stakeholders. Successful candidates have typically spent 5+ years in a leadership role.
- Experience leading high-performing engineers through discovery and delivery of large-scale engineering initiatives.
- Proven track record of delivering internal platform work across single and multi-platform environments.
- Demonstrated success developing engineers through coaching, mentorship, and performance leadership.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and architectural patterns, particularly within high-traffic mobile ecosystems.
- Experience building systems designed for scale, reliability, and experimentation.
Requirements
- Values you’ll model:
- Be Kind and Care — build with empathy; assume positive intent; support teammates and members.
- Live Good Health — champion healthy habits and balance in how we work and what we ship.
- Be Data-Inspired — ground decisions in research and data; measure what matters.
- Champion Change — lean into ambiguity; iterate, learn, and improve continuously.
- Leave it Better than You Found It — raise quality, clarify systems, and document as you go.
- Make It Happen — bias to action; deliver impact with craft and accountability.
Benefits
- Competitive salary ranging from $200,000 - $230,000.
- Comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.
- Face-to-Face Connections: Opportunities to meet and connect with team members in person.
- Flexibility At Its Best: Flexible time-off policy with Responsible Time Off benefit.
- Give Back: Volunteer days off to support community service.
- Mentorship Program: Matched with a teammate for career growth.
- Family-Friendly Support: Paid maternity and paternity leave, and comprehensive assistance for fertility-related matters.
- Wellness Comes First: Monthly Wellness Allowance for physical and mental well-being.
- Celebrate Greatness: Reward and recognition platform for exceptional contributions.
- Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Access to MyFitnessPal Premium.
- Unlock Your Potential: Virtual learning and development library.
- Championing Inclusion: Active DEI Committee fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Healthcare Matters: Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Secure Your Future: Retirement savings program with competitive employer match.
Job Requirements
- Meaningful experience managing platform or foundational engineering work in close partnership with Product and cross-functional stakeholders. Successful candidates have typically spent 5+ years in a leadership role.
- Experience leading high-performing engineers through discovery and delivery of large-scale engineering initiatives.
- Proven track record of delivering internal platform work across single and multi-platform environments.
- Demonstrated success developing engineers through coaching, mentorship, and performance leadership.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and architectural patterns, particularly within high-traffic mobile ecosystems.
- Experience building systems designed for scale, reliability, and experimentation.
- Values you’ll model:
- Be Kind and Care — build with empathy; assume positive intent; support teammates and members.
- Live Good Health — champion healthy habits and balance in how we work and what we ship.
- Be Data-Inspired — ground decisions in research and data; measure what matters.
- Champion Change — lean into ambiguity; iterate, learn, and improve continuously.
- Leave it Better than You Found It — raise quality, clarify systems, and document as you go.
- Make It Happen — bias to action; deliver impact with craft and accountability.
Benefits
- Competitive salary ranging from $200,000 - $230,000.
- Comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.
- Face-to-Face Connections: Opportunities to meet and connect with team members in person.
- Flexibility At Its Best: Flexible time-off policy with Responsible Time Off benefit.
- Give Back: Volunteer days off to support community service.
- Mentorship Program: Matched with a teammate for career growth.
- Family-Friendly Support: Paid maternity and paternity leave, and comprehensive assistance for fertility-related matters.
- Wellness Comes First: Monthly Wellness Allowance for physical and mental well-being.
- Celebrate Greatness: Reward and recognition platform for exceptional contributions.
- Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Access to MyFitnessPal Premium.
- Unlock Your Potential: Virtual learning and development library.
- Championing Inclusion: Active DEI Committee fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Healthcare Matters: Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Secure Your Future: Retirement savings program with competitive employer match.
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