🚀 Senior Engineering Manager

Clubhouse

1d • $267,000 - $315,000 • Remote

About The Position

Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social – backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. Our goal is to create social products that we use, that our friends use, and that have the potential to reach billions of people. Clubhouse was our first app, and we’ve been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. We have years of runway, millions of users, and find ourselves at a very interesting time, where AI is making entirely new things possible with voice. We are a remote-friendly company – with a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work here and thrive without having to live near an office. This role is open to candidates across the U.S.

As a leader on the engineering team, you'll work closely with our founders, product, data, and data licensing teams to turn a complex technical surface into robust systems and a clear, sequenced roadmap. You'll own the people, delivery, and direction for the teams that build the backend, infrastructure, and intelligence layer the rest of the product depends on, and you'll partner with a platform lead on the technical direction. This is a player-coach role: you will not be expected to code daily, but you will be in the design conversations and sequencing the work by complexity and impact.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering (ideally backend, platform, or infrastructure)
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience sourcing and hiring amazing engineers
• Experience supporting a team of 6+ engineers through coaching and charting fulfilling career paths
• Proficiency with modern AI tooling and ability to reason about the changes a codebase and a process need in order to enable AI-assisted development
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to capture the essence of complex situations quickly and communicate them to technical and non-technical partners
• Scrappy and entrepreneurial mindset with a bias towards getting things done
• Ability to prioritize by complexity and ROI
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and view ambiguity as an opportunity to lead
• Commitment to coaching, developing, and supporting individuals on your team
• Prioritize team's engagement, happiness, and health
• Set clear expectations for reports based on their level and role while providing feedback on performance early and often
• Low-ego, put the team's success first
• Believe that fostering a collaborative and diverse environment is integral to team well-being, driving innovation, and achieving long-term success

Nice To Haves

• Experience with backend, platform, or infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build and support the team, working with recruiting to build an incredible engineering team.
• Guide the development of our backend and infrastructure, and help the team turn product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap each month.
• Collaborate closely with EPD leadership and contribute to processes that drive shipping velocity.
• Work hand in hand with a platform lead who owns backend technical standards, own incident process and developer-experience improvements, and lead the changes needed to enable AI-assisted development across the platform.
• Work closely with a talented group of engineers, product managers, and data scientists to understand problems and co-create solutions.
• Work closely with leadership to convert technical and product visions into tangible roadmaps.
• Lead and define technical strategy and roadmaps, working closely with your team and cross-functional stakeholders such as product, finance, and trust & safety to identify, drive, and execute against high impact opportunities such as cost efficiency, performance, and user safety.
• Create something meaningful by figuring out something entirely new for the world, a positive product that brings people's voices together to help everyone have a life filled with great friendships.

Benefits

• Remote-friendly company with a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work and thrive without having to live near an office
• Years of runway
• Millions of users
• Seat at the table
• Ability to focus on the work that gives you energy
• Love what you do each day

What This Job Offers

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