Engineering Manager

Loopreturns; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Loop is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its newly formed Support & Stability team in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment. You will own high-risk domains, build measurement systems, and push AI-driven automation to prevent recurring issues.

You’ll balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic team development, working across distributed locations and remote options to keep the platform reliable and scalable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management leadership experience.
• Built or led a proactive stability or support program.
• Experience distinguishing systemic issues and investing in permanent fixes.
• Experience using AI agents as a default part of workflows.
• Able to negotiate scope and ownership across teams.
• Deep technical depth to review high-risk work while staying hands-on.
• Strong leadership with a focus on accountability and psychological safety.
• PHP/Laravel experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own stewardship of the highest-risk, highest-impact domain areas.
• Build measurement systems to reveal where risks live.
• Prioritize root cause fixes over volume-based patches.
• Lead first-line triage of engineering support tickets.
• Promote AI agents as the default approach for domain maintenance and triage.
• Directly drive AI adoption; provide support and time to build skills.
• Develop prompts and automation to turn recurring problems into AI fixes.
• Define ownership boundaries between teams to keep scope tight.
• Communicate system health and support trends to leadership.
• Lead people management fundamentals with clear expectations and feedback.
• Stay hands-on enough to remain credible and unblock the team when needed.

Skills

Engineering management

Leadership

AI adoption

Strategic planning

People management

Tools

PHP/Laravel

Vue.js

Kubernetes

AWS

Jira

Datadog

Snowflake

MySQL

DynamoDB

Job description

About the Engineering Organization

The Engineering Team at Loop is a balance of agility, consistency, and performance. These are the pillars that allow the team to constantly and consistently deliver value that matters to customers. That customer intimacy is what allows our engineering teams to be the best in our space, and bring the best ideas to the market.

About the Role

Loop is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed Support & Stability team. This team is the steward of the most critical, highest-risk domains in our application, and the first line of defense for engineering support. You'll lead a team that measures everything, gets ahead of problems before they spread, and uses AI and automation as the default way to turn recurring support patterns into permanent fixes, not tickets closed one at a time.

Our Blended Work Environment

We work from our HQ in Columbus, OH, and are distributed throughout the United States, select Canadian provinces, United Kingdom, and Australia. For this position, we're open to Columbus, OH; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Los Angeles, CA; or fully remote.

Our Tech Stack and Tools

PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, AWS, Jira, Claude, Cursor, Datadog, Snowflake. Our hiring process is tech-stack agnostic.

• Own stewardship of the application's highest-risk, highest-impact domain areas. Keep them clean, tested, and maintainable so other teams can build on top of them with confidence.


• Build the measurement systems that tell you where risks live. Deployment frequency, days with commits, support ticket volume, and recurring failure patterns are your leading indicators. If you can't measure it, you can't protect it.


• Prioritize root cause over volume. When a class of problem keeps showing up, your job is to make it go away permanently, not to keep closing tickets against it.


• Lead your team's first-line triage of engineering support tickets. Own and resolve what you can, and route what you can't with the context already assembled so the receiving team isn't starting from zero.


• Push your team to make AI agents the default starting point for domain maintenance and support triage, not an afterthought. Review AI-generated work with the same rigor you'd apply to any code.


• Lead your team's AI adoption directly. Set the expectation clearly, give people support and time to build the skill, then hold them accountable.


• Build and champion the skills, prompts, and automation that turn a recurring problem into something AI catches or fixes before a human has to.


• Negotiate the boundaries of what your team owns versus what stays with the team that built it. Keep the scope tight and defensible.


• Represent your team's perspective on system health and support trends back to product and engineering leadership, and make the case for stability work with the same rigor others bring to feature work.


• Run the fundamentals of people management well. Clear expectations, regular high-quality 1:1s, direct feedback, and investment in your team's growth.


• Maintain enough hands-on technical involvement to stay credible on the work your team does and to unblock them when it matters.

• 3+ years of engineering management leadership experience, ideally including ownership of platform reliability, system health, or critical-domain code.


• You've built or run a proactive stability or support program, not just responded to incidents and tickets as they came in.


• You have experience distinguishing a one-off issue from a systemic one, and you've made the call to invest in a permanent fix instead of patching the symptom.


• You use AI agents as a default part of how you and your team work, and you can describe specifically how that changed your team's output, not just that you tried it.


• You're comfortable saying no. You can negotiate scope and ownership boundaries with other teams without damaging the relationship.


• You have enough technical depth to review complex work in high-risk domains and to stay hands-on when the team needs you to be.


• You've managed underperformance and recognized strong performers with clarity and consistency, and you know how to hold people accountable while building psychological safety.


• You operate with intensity and hold a high bar for your own work and for the people around you. You give direct feedback, ask for help early, and respond to setbacks with ownership rather than withdrawal.


• Strong experience with PHP/Laravel environments is a plus, but not required.

Loop Story

Commerce should feel effortless. Every product adored, every order perfect, every customer loyal for life. But reality is messier: operations get tangled, margins grow thin, and trust is fragile. That's where Loop steps in. We create confidence where commerce fails.

We started by fixing returns and exchanges. Today, we're building a connected commerce operations suite — powering everything from order tracking to fraud prevention, with hundreds of innovations in between. Grounded in data and insight, our platform helps merchants make smarter decisions with every transaction. Over 5,000 of the world's most loved brands trust Loop to turn cost centers into growth engines. Our mission is simple: protect margins, delight customers, and help merchants build businesses that last.

Life at Loop is rooted in our core values. We balance high empathy with high standards, knowing that work is better when we can show up authentically and resilience is built by facing challenges head-on. We expect you'll grow quickly, learning skills that last far beyond your time here. Loop is a formative chapter in your career — a chance to shape the future of commerce and to leave better than when you arrived.

Learn more about us here: https://loopreturns.com/careers.

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