Engineering Manager: Lead High-Impact Platform & Quality

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

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.