Engineering Manager, Node.js & React — Ecommerce Platform

CITY HOME; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid vacation & sick time

Flexible work environment

401(k)

Job summary

CITY HOME is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two product teams that support our ecommerce platform. This hands-on leader will drive delivery, quality, and engineering practices across web and mobile interfaces, partnering with product, UX, QA, architecture, DevOps, security, and data.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software, 2+ years in leadership, and experience with Node.js, React Native, APIs, cloud-native services, and modern architectures. Florida driver license required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Experience supporting ecommerce, retail, marketplace, digital commerce, or customer-facing web/mobile platforms.
• Strong experience with Node.js and modern API/service-based architectures.
• Experience with React Native or mobile application engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern web architectures, cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, and production support.
• Experience working with cross-functional product teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development practices.
• Florida Driver License required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers across two ecommerce product teams.
• Own team delivery health, sprint execution, roadmap alignment, and operational discipline.
• Partner with Product Managers to translate business outcomes into technical plans.
• Guide delivery across React Native mobile applications, Node.js services, APIs, and ecommerce platform capabilities.
• Drive engineering practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and production readiness.
• Help teams use AI coding assistants responsibly to improve delivery speed, test coverage, documentation, refactoring, and developer productivity.
• Work with architects and senior engineers to guide technical design decisions.
• Remove blockers and create focus for predictable outcomes.
• Ensure scalable, maintainable, secure solutions aligned with modernization strategy.
• Support incident response and continuous improvement for production systems.
• Manage performance, career growth, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
• Promote ownership, learning, collaboration, accountability, and practical innovation.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

React Native

Node.js

API design

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted coding

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CITY HOME is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two product teams that support our ecommerce platform. This hands-on leader will drive delivery, quality, and engineering practices across web and mobile interfaces, partnering with product, UX, QA, architecture, DevOps, security, and data.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software, 2+ years in leadership, and experience with Node.js, React Native, APIs, cloud-native services, and modern architectures. Florida driver license required.