Engineering Manager, Play Expansion (Remote)

Fetch; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Fetch is expanding Play across surfaces to improve discovery and engagement for tens of millions of users. As Engineering Manager, Play Expansion, you will lead a team building backend and mobile components and influence technical tradeoffs to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Design, Data, and other teams, ensuring scalable, reliable systems and healthy development velocity. Remote-friendly, US-based candidates encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers as an Engineering Manager or technical lead, with readiness to own people management for a small team.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or closely related work
• Strong technical background in backend systems and/or native mobile applications, with the ability to guide engineers across both
• Ability to stay close to technical execution through design reviews, code reviews, architectural discussions, and tradeoff analysis
• Experience delivering high-quality, customer-facing consumer products at meaningful scale
• Ability to translate product and business goals into clear technical plans, team priorities, and measurable outcomes
• Sound technical judgment for balancing delivery speed, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational health
• Experience collaborating across engineering teams and navigating dependencies in a cross-functional product environment
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to navigate differing viewpoints and advocate for realistic scope and technical constraints
• Commitment to engineering best practices including testing, observability, incident response, and active management of technical debt
• Ability to work effectively with remote teammates across US time zones

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers across multiple experience levels
• Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and support career growth and performance management
• Own delivery for the Play Expansion roadmap, ensuring predictable execution and high-quality outcomes
• Translate product and business goals into clear technical plans and milestones
• Help the team prioritize, sequence, and unblock multiple workstreams while clarifying tradeoffs around scope, quality, and timing
• Partner with senior and staff engineers to guide system design, architecture, code quality, and technical decision-making within the team
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Support, and engineering teams across Play and other Fetch pillars to align dependencies and deliver cohesive user experiences
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and resilient under high traffic and transaction volume
• Balance delivery velocity with long-term technical health and operational excellence
• Improve team processes, reduce operational overhead, and drive continuous improvement
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and accountability
• Support engineers in using AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code to improve development velocity, documentation, and code quality

Skills

People leadership

Software engineering

Backend systems

Mobile development

Communication

Remote collaboration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Fetch is expanding Play across surfaces to improve discovery and engagement for tens of millions of users. As Engineering Manager, Play Expansion, you will lead a team building backend and mobile components and influence technical tradeoffs to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Design, Data, and other teams, ensuring scalable, reliable systems and healthy development velocity. Remote-friendly, US-based candidates encouraged to apply.