Engineering Manager, Product Engineering
About The Position
At Thrive Market, our Product Engineering team drives meaningful impact for both our members and the business by delivering innovative solutions that shape every part of the e-commerce grocery journey. From crafting seamless cart and checkout flows to enhancing recurring shipments and personalization, our engineers ensure grocery shopping is simple, rewarding, and trustworthy. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our product engineering pods. In this role, you’ll guide a team of talented engineers to build high-quality, high-impact product features that directly improve how our members shop, save, and return to Thrive Market. Your leadership will be instrumental in translating company strategy into technical execution, elevating the customer experience while driving measurable business results.
Requirements
- 2+ years in an engineering management and people leadership role, supervising engineers, conducting performance reviews, mentoring, and managing underperformance
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant technical contributions and ownership of services or components
- Experience delivering software with predictability and quality, including design reviews, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring
- Proven track record of delivering outcomes aligned to business or product goals (OKRs, metrics-based)
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Marketing, etc.), communicating both technical and non-technical perspectives
- Demonstrated ability to guide architecture & design conversations, ensure maintainability and scalability of systems
- Strong organizational and process skills: setting predictable delivery cadence, removing blockers, improving team productivity
- Ownership mindset: ability to proactively identify areas for improvement, take accountability for team outcomes, and drive change
- Technical depth: able to review code/design, understand trade-offs, and influence technical direction even if not coding daily
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience within scaling engineering orgs (i.e.. evolving processes)
- Domain expertise in e-commerce or similar
- Experience working with legacy systems
- Experience defining and owning quality metrics, reliability, or SLOs/SLIs in production systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical transformation (e.g. re-architecture or modernization efforts)
- Experience influencing beyond one’s own team—driving initiatives across org
- Background in leading teams to deliver products using Agile principles and Scrum events (sprints, retrospectives, daily standups, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback, actionable growth plans, and addressing performance issues constructively
- Build and retain a high-performing engineering team owning team-level outcomes and OKRs, creating a culture of accountability, initiative, and continuous improvement
- Partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to define priorities and deliver high-quality features that improve customer experience and drive business outcomes
- Ensure predictable, on-time delivery by establishing clear processes, tracking progress with metrics, and communicating proactively with stakeholders
- Guide technical decisions within your pod, promoting scalable, maintainable, and reliable designs and systems
- Uphold quality standards through code reviews, design reviews, testing, and automation to ensure reliability and customer trust
- Proactively identify opportunities and risks, driving initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness and long-term scalability
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
- 401k plan
- 9 Observed Holidays
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
- Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
- Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
- Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
