Engineering Manager

Graphite; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage

16 weeks paid parental leave

4 weeks of vacation

Company-paid lunch, snacks, and coffee

Commuter perks with Unlimited Ride MetroCard

Job summary

A software development firm in San Francisco is looking for an Engineering Manager who balances hands-on coding with strategic leadership. The ideal candidate will have experience managing teams, a strong coding background, and excellent problem-solving skills. This role offers a competitive salary package with equity and top-tier benefits including health coverage and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Qualifications

• Industry experience building high-quality software products.
• Ability to identify problems and implement solutions autonomously.
• Comfortable working with abstractions and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow engineering teams while contributing to codebases.
• Drive clarity around complex technical decisions.
• Support team growth and champion software engineering best practices.

Skills

Team management

Coding and reviewing code

Technical leadership

Problem-solving

Software engineering best practices

Job description

Graphite builds consumer-quality tools for modern software engineering teams, so they can ship faster and create amazing products.

Our product

Graphite is modern code review for fast-moving teams - we help engineers write and review smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster.

Anyone can start using Graphite individually without needing their coworkers to change tools - we seamlessly sync code changes and reviews. We started Graphite because we missed internal code review tools like Phabricator (at Facebook) and Critique (Google) that help engineers create, approve, and ship small, incremental changes, and long-term we’re passionate about creating products & workflows that help fast-moving eng teams achieve more.

Our company

We’re a small-but-mighty team of 40+ based in Manhattan in the heart of Soho, with a passionate and rapidly growing group of users at top engineering orgs like Datadog, Vercel, Ramp, and Snowflake.

We've raised a $52mil Series B (featured in TechCrunch) led by Christine Esserman, following a previous $20mil Series A from Peter Levine at Andreessen Horowitz (who led GitHub's Series A). Other investors include folks like Tom Preston-Werner (founder of GitHub), Sam Lambert (Planetscale CEO & ex-GitHub CTO), Sebastian Markbåge (creator of React), and many more.

Our culture centers on putting people first, applying science and craft, practicing disciplined ambition, and giving ownership - both literally (with equity) and in the responsibility and scope you’ll have as a part of our early team. Outside of work you’ll find us brewing espresso drinks, producing music, or practicing yoga. We can’t wait to see what you’ll add to the mix!

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives by balancing hands-on coding, thoughtful team management, and strategic technical leadership. You'll drive projects with clarity, care, and intensity, supporting your team members' growth and leading by example.

What you’ll do

• Demonstrated experience managing and growing engineering teams while actively contributing to codebases.

• Strong technical chops: comfortable coding, reviewing code, and architecting systems at scale.

• Proven ability to drive clarity and alignment around complex technical decisions and challenges.

• Empathetic leader who supports team growth and champions best practices in software engineering.

What we’re looking for

• Industry experience building high-quality software products

• An ability to identify problems, build alignment, and implement solutions autonomously

• Comfortable working with and designing abstractions and frameworks which increase developer velocity

Life at Graphite

• Competitive comp: ($220-250k base + substantial equity). We're backed by some of the best investors and excited to offer competitive compensation packages.

• Role trajectory. We're excited to build a team whose responsibilities and comp to grow as we do.

• Benefits. Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage and 16 weeks paid parental leave.

• Time to decompress. We ask that our team take 4 weeks of vacation a year to unplug and unwind.

• Relocation expenses. We're an in-person, NYC-based team, and we're happy to help with your relocation expenses!

• The team that eats together. Company-paid lunch, snacks, and coffee during workdays.

• Commuter perks. Ride around NYC with an Unlimited Ride MetroCard, on us.

As a team, we're very aware of the systemic structural issues that have created inequalities for many communities, especially in the tech industry. We recognize that women and underrepresented minorities are statistically less likely to apply for a role that they feel unqualified for. If you are interested in this role but you’re concerned about not meeting all requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway - we'd love to get to know you and see if there's a place for you here at Graphite!