Engineering Manager - Foundational Services

Outside; Colorado; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Outside is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Foundational Services team. You will lead two engineering groups responsible for shared services used across all products to provide a seamless experience.

As a leader, you will align goals with customer impact, drive architecture decisions with product and design partners, and ensure team health and code quality through strong mentorship and reviews.

Qualifications

• Lead two engineering groups to build shared services powering login, accounts and benefits.
• Drive product and architecture decisions with product and design partners.
• Maintain service health, code quality, and effective reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead two engineering groups to build shared services powering login and accounts.
• Collaborate with product, design, and leadership on roadmaps and technical direction.
• Mentor engineers and drive high-impact initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Cross-team collaboration

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Observability

Architecture

Prototyping

Job description

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR CAREER TO NEW HEIGHTS? ARE YOU SEEKING A NEW CHALLENGE IN A DYNAMIC SECTOR?

This is a very exciting and highly innovative time here at Outside.

OUR TRUE NORTH:Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offers best-in-class content and experiences to more than 70 million of the world’s most passionate outdoor, wellness, and endurance enthusiasts every month. We inspire a broad and diverse audience to do the activities they love with greater enjoyment, inspiration, and knowledge and are dedicated to making real change in the outdoor and fitness industries.

Join Outside as an Engineering Manager for the Foundational Services team! You will manage 2 groups of engineers responsible for building shared services used within all products in order to provide a seamless experience. From the way people log in, update their account, and access their benefits, this team is tasked with delivering high-quality products & services at every touch point across our products.

As a leader, your primary role is to put the goals of our customers and business first, drive product and architecture decisions with your product and design counterparts, and help your team reach its maximum potential. You'll work closely with engineering leaders across Outside to set technical strategy and direction. You are accountable for the health and execution of these services and the team that builds them and so your skillset should also be sound in architecture, feature development, and code review.

Leadership & Culture

• Build and maintain a collaborative team culture that reflects the division's values: community > company > team > individual, transparency by default, and assuming good intent and expertise from others
• Foster an environment where engineers understand the business impact of their work at every level
• Model good hygiene - fix what's broken, clean up what's messy, and hold the team to the same standard
• Manage conflict constructively, ensuring disagreements are resolved with low ego and a bias toward action
• Work closely with the team’s Product Manager to help drive the road map while maintaining scope and technical boundaries

People Management

• Run regular 1:1s and goal-setting conversations that keep engineers aligned on expectations and growing toward their interests
• Actively seek out challenging, impactful work for each engineer based on their skills and career goals, while giving them room to occasionally fail and learn
• Facilitate feedback conversations early and often - both giving and receiving
• Participate in hiring to identify candidates who will strengthen the team's culture and technical capability

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Build relationships with partner teams (Media, Mapping, and others) so that Identity & Subscription becomes the default foundation for Outside products as they expand
• Triage inbound requests from customer service and cross-team stakeholders - distinguishing bugs, one-off fixes, and larger misunderstandings of platform capabilities
• Communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to product managers to senior leadership, adjusting depth and framing for each

Technical Leadership

• Engage deeply with the team's architecture and technical decisions to ask good questions, identify tradeoffs, and provide meaningful direction without needing to be in the code
• Ensure technical decisions are documented with clear tradeoffs
• Facilitate planning exercises that surface unknowns and produce reliable estimates, accounting for tech debt and competing priorities
• Author and mentor engineers on technical planning documents
• Establish and model modern engineering practices including CI/CD, distributed tracing, DORA metrics, observability dashboards, and LLM-assisted development
• Get hands-on when needed, prototyping or spiking to help the team communicate tradeoffs or unblock experimentation

What We Offer:

This is a fully remote role, and we welcome applicants based anywhere in the United States or Canada. The disclosure below is provided specifically to satisfy Colorado's pay transparency law for roles that could be performed there, it does not limit who may apply.

Entirely remote job that could be performed in Colorado: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of between $150,000 to $180,000. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission . Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away, sick leave, and more. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Outside Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristics. Pursuant to applicable laws, we also make accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We believe a diverse team is a strong team, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.