Common Room is looking for an Engineering Manager to grow and inspire our engineering organization. You will combine technical leadership with company-building impact, guiding our engineering strategy, scaling the team, and ensuring we deliver robust, reliable systems for our customers.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute engineering strategy, aligning technical direction with business goals while balancing velocity, quality, and scalability.
- Build and scale the team by recruiting, retaining, and mentoring world-class engineers and managers, fostering career growth and leadership development.
- Drive execution at scale to ensure timely delivery of complex, high-impact projects across the stack, with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape the roadmap and deliver on company priorities.
- Champion engineering excellence by establishing standards for architecture, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Foster a psychologically safe culture where teams can innovate, take ownership, and do their best work.
- Contribute to company-building initiatives like hiring practices, onboarding, and organizational design to support our growth as a startup.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years leading teams, including people management and technical leadership.
- Experience scaling engineering organizations at a fast-growing startup or tech company.
- Strong judgment on tradeoffs, architecture, and tooling, favoring supported, stable technologies over trends.
- Proven ability to deliver large, complex projects while keeping teams unblocked and motivated.
- Deep familiarity with backend systems, distributed architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
- A track record of building diverse, high-performing teams and fostering an inclusive, feedback-rich culture.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels, comfortable jumping from code reviews to board-level discussions.
Nice to Have
- Node.js/TypeScript experience.
Technical Stack
- TypeScript, Node.js, TypeGraphQL, Apollo/Express, Postgres, ClickHouse, React, AWS
Team & Environment
You will serve as a bridge between engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $180,000 to $220,000 plus meaningful equity ownership.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision; HSA and FSA options.
- Company pays 100% of employee premium and 50% of premium for any dependents.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off.
- Paid Company Holidays.
- Work from home policy including a laptop and support for home office needs.
- Monthly Remote Stipend.
- 401(k) self contribution.
- Paid Family Leave.
- Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle.
Common Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
