Engineering Manager, Consumer Core

Upside•Austin, TX

10d•$185,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Upside is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Consumer Core team. This full-stack team is responsible for the core functionality of Upside's platform, utilizing Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) for the front-end and Python + Java for the back-end. The team establishes architectural foundations and security patterns that enable other Consumer full-stack teams to build scalable features. The ideal candidate will blend technical expertise with people-focused leadership to enhance operational excellence, promote growth, and scale the systems that support Upside's primary product platform. This role also involves collaborating with other engineering leaders on organizational and technical strategy for both Consumer and Partnerships applications and systems.

Requirements

3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally across mobile or distributed API domains.
Thrive in environments where you’re asked to scale teams, elevate systems, and solve ambiguity.
Familiarity with mobile and API infrastructure (AWS preferred), analytical and SDLC tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Runway).
Hands-on experience or familiarity with mobile and API development best practices, including serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, and Clean architecture patterns.
Value clarity over consensus and help teams stay aligned through high-change, high-growth conditions.
Interested in integrating generative AI into team workflows and engineering processes.

Responsibilities

Create a safe, collaborative team environment where open discussion is encouraged.
Operate with a first-team mindset, assisting in important areas regardless of domain.
Raise the bar by identifying and influencing improvements in quality, performance, speed of execution, and engineering standards.
Grow talent by coaching engineers, recognizing achievements, and helping them develop skills.
Set clarity and empower autonomy by clearly articulating expectations and direction.
Define and maintain team domain boundaries across authentication, event architecture, user research and analytical workflows, internal mobile tooling, app security support, mobile FinOps, and cross-team repos.
Champion system-level quality by identifying and addressing gaps in reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
Ensure the consumer app platform is secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready, enabling self-service, repeatable, and trusted workflows.
Oversee team AI adoption and general exploration strategy to keep platforms on the frontier of industry-leading tools.
Act as the primary point of contact for internal partners (Product, Design, Security, Data Science).
Represent the Consumer Core team in cross-functional planning, technical councils, and long-term roadmap discussions.