Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Block, a renovation platform revolutionizing the industry, as an Engineering Manager for our Planning product. Lead a team of 4-6 engineers, fostering a positive and inclusive environment while providing mentorship and career growth opportunities. Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product Managers to align engineering efforts with squad goals. Contribute directly to the codebase (~50% of your time), integrating cutting-edge AI technologies. This role requires 2+ years of engineering leadership experience and 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in modern web technologies (Next, Typescript, React, Apollo), and a passion for AI coding tools. Block offers a competitive salary, equity, subsidized health insurance, flexible work environment, paid time off, family leave, 401k, and a learning and development stipend.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in engineering leadership or mentoring position (Tech Lead, Senior Engineer, Engineering Manager), 5+ years software engineering experience
• Proven ability to drive process improvements, technical innovation, team efficiency, and code quality
• Ability to balance management responsibilities with direct technical contribution
• Comfortable and enthusiastic about AI coding tools and emerging technologies
• Comfortable managing a remote team
• Proficient in modern web technologies for both back-end and front-end (Next, Typescript, React, Apollo)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4-6 engineers, fostering a positive and inclusive work environment while providing mentorship and career growth opportunities, empowering engineers to do their best work
• Work closely with the Tech Lead and Product Manager to align engineering efforts with squad goals and roadmap, managing work load and capacity of engineers on the team
• Facilitate team cohesion by participating in code reviews, technical specification discussions, and engineering syncs
• Collaborate with the Tech Lead and Engineering Director to ensure best practices, technical standards, and engineering excellence
• Directly contribute to code (~50% of the time), taking ownership of development tasks while supporting the team’s workload

Preferred Qualifications

• The current stack includes NextJS, Typescript, React, Feathers, and NodeJS, and proficiency with these technologies is highly advantageous
• This team's product heavily utilizes LLM chains, making prior experience with AI chain integration or AI teams a valuable asset

Benefits

• Earn equity in an early stage high-growth company
• Subsidized health insurance, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible work environment, with a hybrid schedule and "work from anywhere" time
• PTO and company holidays
• 12 weeks universal fully paid family leave
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
• HSA with employer contribution & FSA plan
• Budgeted learning and development stipend