Senior Engineering Manager, Backend & Platform

Grocery TV; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HSA match

Learning & development budget

Job summary

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a team of about six engineers building backend services, device platform, and applications powering a retail media network across 6,500+ stores and thousands of connected devices.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll ensure on-time delivery, uphold code quality and architectural standards, and collaborate with Product to align on scope and acceptance criteria; you’ll run the weekly operating cadence and drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing engineers
• Track record of leading a team of 5–10 engineers delivering production software on a predictable cadence
• Strong technical depth in backend and distributed systems; able to review code, evaluate designs, and push back on architecture decisions with credibility
• Experience owning delivery commitments to a business, including recovering projects that have gone off track
• Demonstrated ability to raise engineering standards on an existing team — testing, code review, observability, or tech debt reduction
• Experience partnering closely with Product on scoping and planning
• Direct, low-ego communication style; comfortable being hard on the problem and easy on the person
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• People leadership: Manage team through 1:1s, hold members accountable, develop through feedback
• Own right people, right seats: assess fit, develop strengths, address gaps
• Run quarterly conversations on performance and growth
• Partner with CTO on hiring, onboarding and capacity planning

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Backend development

Code review

Product collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Go

Android

IoT fleets

Job description

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a team of about six engineers building backend services, device platform, and applications powering a retail media network across 6,500+ stores and thousands of connected devices.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll ensure on-time delivery, uphold code quality and architectural standards, and collaborate with Product to align on scope and acceptance criteria; you’ll run the weekly operating cadence and drive