Engineering Manager

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Engineering Manager leading day-to-day engineering leadership at Platphorm, managing a Ruby on Rails and React team. Driving execution and collaborating with Product to deliver results.

Responsibilities:

  • Delivery outcomes, technical quality, and team velocity across a Ruby on Rails and React codebase
  • Work alongside a dedicated Scrum Master who owns sprint ceremonies and processes
  • 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, hiring, and retention for 6 FTEs and 3 full-time contractors
  • Production stability, incident response, deployment pipeline health, and coordination with DevOps
  • Improve estimation accuracy, reduce cycle time, strengthen code review and QA handoff processes, and establish clear engineering metrics
  • Work closely with VP Product and the Product team (2 Senior PMs, 1 UX Designer) to translate priorities into well-scoped, deliverable work

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in an engineering management or team lead role
  • Must be comfortable working with consumer platforms that contain adult themes, mature content, and dating-related content
  • Strong hands-on background with Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred)
  • Experience managing teams of 5–15 engineers, including fully remote and distributed teams
  • Track record of delivering software on predictable cadences in a product-driven environment
  • Experience managing both full-time employees and contractors as a unified team
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and a point of view on how they change engineering workflows
  • Clear, direct communication style; comfortable partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, and holds direct reports accountable for results

Benefits:

  • Fully remote position with two in-person meetings per year
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401K matching program with no vesting period
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Generous PTO plan and 12 company-paid holidays plus your birthday
  • Work-life balance
  • Frequent virtual team-building events
  • Friendly and diverse coworkers