Sr. Engineering Manager

Care.com•Austin, TX

1d•$180,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Care.com is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Pricing and Subscription engineering team. The role manages a full-stack team of 10 to 12 engineers building systems that determine pricing, package and present offerings, and measure results across web and mobile products. This high-visibility position works with senior executives and cross-functional partners, translates technical tradeoffs into business terms, and turns experiment results into decisions. The manager remains technically hands-on, guiding architecture and reviewing technical work. The manager sets the technical roadmap for pricing and growth, maintains pricing and promotion services, supports experimentation, and helps move core capabilities toward an event-driven architecture. The role also partners with Finance and Compliance on regulatory, tax, and reporting requirements; champions engineering quality and reliability; and recruits, mentors, and develops engineers.

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.
Track record of delivering growth, pricing, monetization, subscription, or checkout work in a consumer-facing product.
Experience running experiments and using data to decide what to build next.
Strong hands-on full-stack technical skills and familiarity sufficient to participate in design and code reviews.
Experience with Java or Golang.
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 and payment security and compliance, such as PCI-DSS.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 10 to 12 full-stack engineers responsible for pricing, packaging, promotions, and subscription experiences across web and mobile products.
Set the technical roadmap for pricing and growth with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Data partners, tying priorities to measurable business outcomes.
Present strategy, progress, results, tradeoffs, risks, and expected engineering investment returns to executives.
Review code and designs, help debug production issues, and contribute directly when needed.
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 they are accurate, auditable, and consistent with billing and payments systems.
Partner with Finance and Compliance to ensure pricing changes meet regulatory, tax, and financial reporting requirements.
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 and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Oversee on-call practices, SLAs, and incident management to maintain platform resilience and availability.