Engineering Lead, Core Product Engineering
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Engineering Lead managing product engineering areas at ClassDojo. Overseeing engineering managers and driving technical excellence across product areas.
Responsibilities:
- Own the product area's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them
- Translate company priorities into product area plans and team plans, in a way that flows both up and down
- Be responsible for architecture-level trade-offs across the area's teams; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against product commitments
- Represent the product area in s-team forums and engineering-wide leadership conversations
- Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support
- Hold the line on engineering practices: flow-based delivery, vertical slicing (nothing >5 days, no project >4 weeks), WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability, AI-native development
- Address performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of "fine" performance into great performance
- Be directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake
- Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across the area; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready
- Take accountability for SLAs and incident response across the area
- Make tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident
- Co-own outcomes with PM and Design leads (roadmap, quarterly goals, quality bar)
- Partner with Revenue, Ops, CX, and other functions as the product area requires
- Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly to Platform services as they mature
Requirements:
- 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers
- 7+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on
- Have owned a product area, pillar, or equivalent multi-team scope and delivered a measurable business outcome
- Have built or evolved engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one
- Have hired, developed, and (where necessary) parted ways with engineering managers
- Operate with a reproducible structural playbook for changing org topology and developing managers, not just experience
- Comfortable making and defending architecture-level trade-offs; can still reason about code with taste
- Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
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