Engineering Manager, Marketplace

Paraform • San Francisco, CA

5d

About The Position

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Marketplace team. This team is central to our growth, owning the critical function of connecting supply (recruiters) with demand (companies and their open roles). The role involves managing a pod of engineers, collaborating with product and data science, and driving key outcomes such as role coverage, recruiter activation and retention, and customer hiring velocity. This is a player-coach role where leaders are expected to be hands-on, contributing to code reviews, debugging, and occasional shipping, while primarily focusing on people management, prioritization, and system design.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing engineers (for Manager title) or 5+ years including managing multiple teams or managers (for Director title).
• Strong prior experience as an individual contributor (IC).
• Experience working on a marketplace, payments, pricing, or a similar domain where system incentives are critical.
• Data fluency, including the ability to perform SQL queries, validate experiment results, and critically assess metrics.
• Proficiency in using AI tools to enhance personal and team productivity.
• Demonstrated ability to document processes, decisions, and postmortems clearly and effectively.
• Comfortable with hands-on work in a fast-paced codebase.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a pod of senior-leaning engineers, promoting a culture of high judgment and autonomous decision-making.
• Oversee the health of the marketplace, focusing on liquidity by ensuring efficient allocation, matching, and distribution systems for roles and recruiters.
• Manage incentive and pricing mechanisms, including payments and bonuses, that influence recruiter behavior, balancing economic principles with engineering execution.
• Develop and implement a robust experimentation framework, including A/B testing and guardrail metrics, to validate marketplace changes.
• Translate ambiguous business goals into a clear quarterly roadmap and ensure successful delivery of the team's initiatives.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape team culture and technical direction in a rapidly growing organization.
• High-leverage role with direct impact on revenue and customer success.
• Work with industry leaders and top investors.
• Modern AI recruiting marketplace environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed