Sr. Engineering Manager

Care.com • Austin, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Care.com is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Pricing and Subscription team, a group of nine engineers responsible for core revenue-generating experiences, including rate cards, upsell, and checkout across web and mobile products. The role partners closely with Product Management and other functions to shape the technical roadmap and uses experimentation, including A/B testing, to guide product decisions.

This is a hands-on leadership position involving technical design and code reviews, production debugging, and oversight of engineering quality. The manager will develop pricing and subscription services, help modernize legacy components into an event-driven architecture, and champion reliability, security, performance, and scalability. The position also oversees team development, on-call practices, service levels, and incident management.

The role is hybrid, with Austin or Dallas, Texas candidates preferred. The team is in the office Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Care.com does not currently hire in Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, or Vermont.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead, including experience managing a large team or multiple teams.
• A track record of delivering pricing, monetization, subscription, or checkout work for a consumer-facing product.
• Experience running experiments and using data to determine what to build next.
• Hands-on technical skills across the full stack and sufficient familiarity with the team's stack to participate in design and code reviews.
• Experience with Java or Golang.
• Proven ability to communicate with executives and cross-functional leaders and explain technical decisions in terms of business impact.
• Experience delivering large-scale, consumer-facing systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, inspire, and grow engineering talent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS and microservices architecture.
• Working knowledge of billing and payment systems, including payment security and compliance such as PCI-DSS.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of nine engineers across backend, frontend, and QA responsible for pricing, packaging, promotions, and subscription experiences across web and mobile.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Data to translate business priorities into the technical roadmap.
• Share progress and results with leadership and explain risks, options, and expected returns to support trade-off decisions.
• Review code and technical designs, and help debug production issues.
• Build and run an experimentation practice using A/B testing, feature flags, success metrics, and guardrails.
• Design and maintain services for pricing rules, plans, discounts, and promotions, ensuring accuracy, auditability, and consistency with billing and payments systems.
• Work with architects to break up legacy platform components and move core pricing capabilities to an event-driven architecture.
• Champion engineering best practices in observability, testing, performance, scalability, and security.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, fostering ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee on-call practices, SLAs, and incident management to maintain platform resilience and availability.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) employer matching
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives may be included as other rewards.

What This Job Offers

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