Engineering Manager

Care.com • Austin, TX

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

About Care.com Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents, so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that. Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage, and pay for care while also providing employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stack and consolidating to a single cloud-native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends built with Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, GitHub, SignalFx, Figma, and more to enable high-quality, scalable development. Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you value autonomy, thrive on collaboration, enjoy building new things, and want to use your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you. Work Environment: Hybrid – In office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday Office Locations: Austin – 816 Congress Ave. #800, Austin, TX 78701 Dallas – 2801 North Central Expressway, 11th Floor, Dallas, TX 75204 Salt Lake City – 1850 Ashton Blvd, Suite 500, Lehi, UT 84043 What You'll Be Working On: We are seeking a highly motivated Engineering Manager to join the Care for Business (C4B) Technology team. Care for Business delivers employer-sponsored caregiving benefits to enterprise clients, helping working families access high-quality care while supporting HR and benefits leaders with scalable solutions. As an Engineering Manager on the C4B team, you will lead a small, agile team responsible for building and scaling platforms and services that power our B2B offerings. You will be accountable for technical delivery, people leadership, and cross-functional partnership to ensure we ship high-quality, reliable solutions that meet the needs of enterprise customers. Design and develop high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems leveraging technologies such as: Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh gRPC and GraphQL APIs AWS Lambdas AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows Amazon EventBridge AWS DynamoDB Postgres AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Kafka Elasticsearch Additional Responsibilities: Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to understand business and enterprise customer requirements Drive cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Business teams Shape development processes to promote high-quality output while enabling rapid iteration Own and review deliverables for accuracy, scalability, performance, and completeness Lead architectural discussions and contribute to system design, technical roadmaps, and project timelines Provide hands-on technical guidance when needed while empowering the team to execute independently Lead and manage a globally distributed development team Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience leading a team as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React
• Hands-on experience with Java or Golang is required
• Experience designing and building microservices architectures
• Deep experience working within AWS cloud environments
• Experience building and operating scalable, customer-facing platforms
• Ability to thrive in a multi-site, cross-functional development environment
• Strong communication skills and experience working with business stakeholders, particularly in B2B or enterprise contexts

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to understand business and enterprise customer requirements
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Business teams
• Shape development processes to promote high-quality output while enabling rapid iteration
• Own and review deliverables for accuracy, scalability, performance, and completeness
• Lead architectural discussions and contribute to system design, technical roadmaps, and project timelines
• Provide hands-on technical guidance when needed while empowering the team to execute independently
• Lead and manage a globally distributed development team
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

What This Job Offers

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