Engineering Manager

Energy Innovation Corp; Inglewood (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Lots in Inglewood, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager fluent in Goal Setting to guide high-availability platform work. The role carries an 8-year level with a salary range of $148,000 to $209,000 and offers influence over technology direction.

You will own the Elasticsearch workstream, oversee secure auth flows, and drive testing and observability standards across the team. This is a full-time, on-site position with mentorship and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume.
• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads.
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you.
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes.
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output.
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own the Elasticsearch workstream and unblock the Inglewood roadmap.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows.
• Lead design reviews to catch costly mistakes before builds.
• Write robust integration tests to prevent regressions and ship confidently.
• Push RabbitMQ changes behind flags to enable quick rollbacks.
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.

Job description

We engineer high-availability platforms, and we are searching for an Engineering Manager fluent in Goal Setting to keep them humming. This Engineering Manager opening rewards 8 years with more than $148,000 - $209,000 — it offers a real grip on the technology direction at Big Lots.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the manager Elasticsearch workstream that unblocks the rest of Big Lots's Inglewood, CA roadmap
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Innovation
• Lead Jenkins design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Inglewood, CA builds them
• Question the generously-mentoring Ruby on Rails pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Watch Angular error budgets and pump the brakes before Inglewood, CA burns through them
• Write the Ruby on Rails integration tests that catch regressions before Inglewood, CA ships them
• Push RabbitMQ changes safely behind flags so Inglewood, CA rollbacks take seconds
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability

What You'll Bring

• A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume
• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise

Big Lots is a proudly-imperfect, fiercely independent Inglewood company that would rather earn trust slowly than buy attention quickly. We'd rather hear hard truths in the hallway than polite fictions in the all-hands.

Take home $148,000 - $209,000, build your RabbitMQ under a mentor, lean on benefits, and shape a full-time week that finally fits.

This Inglewood, CA role just got a fresh timestamp, and applications are flowing in.

We'd rather hear from you sooner than later, so don't sit on this Engineering Manager opening.