Sr. Engineering Manager

Care Com; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K employer matching

Paid holidays

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Care.com, a consumer tech company, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Pricing and Subscription team. You will partner with Product, Finance, Marketing and Data to shape the roadmap and drive an experimentation culture with rigorous A/B testing.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you remain technically engaged to review designs and code while guiding the team toward scalable pricing capabilities, billing alignment, and secure operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead.
• Track record delivering pricing, monetization, subscription or checkout features.
• Experience running experiments and data-driven decisions.
• Hands-on full-stack skills; Java or Go required.
• Experience with AWS and microservices is a plus.
• Knowledge of billing and payment systems and PCI‑DSS is a plus.
• Able to communicate with executives and cross-functional leaders.
• Experience delivering large-scale consumer-facing systems.
• Proven ability to recruit and develop engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for pricing, packaging, promotions and subscriptions across web and mobile products.
• Partner with product, finance, marketing and data to translate business priorities into the technical roadmap.
• Communicate progress and guide trade-offs with leadership and explain risks and ROI.
• Stay hands-on: review code and designs, help debug production issues.
• Build and run an experimentation practice with A/B testing, feature flags and metrics.
• Design and maintain services for pricing rules, plans, discounts and promotions, aligning with billing systems.
• Move core pricing capabilities towards event-driven architecture with architects.
• Champion engineering best practices including observability, testing, performance, scalability and security.
• Recruit, mentor and develop engineers and foster ownership and collaboration.
• Oversee on-call practices, SLAs and incident management to keep the platform resilient.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Engineering management

Pricing/monetization experience

Experimentation & data-driven

Executive communication

Large-scale consumer systems

Talent recruitment & growth

Tools

Java

Golang

AWS

Microservices

Job description

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Pricing and Subscription team, a group of nine engineers responsible for the company’s core revenue-generating experiences, including rate cards, upsell, and checkout. In this role, you will partner closely with Product Management to review requirements and shape the roadmap, and you will drive a strong culture of experimentation through extensive A/B testing. This is a hands‑on leadership position: you will be expected to remain technically engaged, reviewing technical designs and code changes to uphold engineering quality across the team.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team of 9 engineers (including backend, frontend and QA) responsible for pricing, packaging, promotions and subscriptions experiences across our web and mobile products.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Data to translate business priorities into the technical roadmap
• Share progress and results with leadership, and help guide trade‑off decisions by clearly explaining the risks, options, and expected return on engineering investment.
• Stay hands‑on: review code and designs, help debug production issues.
• Build and run an experimentation practice that includes A/B testing, feature flags, clear success metrics and guardrails, so the team can ship pricing changes quickly and read the results with confidence.
• Design and maintain the services that hold pricing rules, plans, discounts and promotions, and make sure they stay accurate, auditable and consistent with billing and payments systems.
• Work with architects to break up legacy platform components and move core pricing capabilities to an event-driven architecture.
• Champion engineering best practices across the domain, including observability, testing, performance, scalability and security.
• Recruit, mentor and develop engineers, and build a team culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee on‑call practices, SLAs and incident management to keep the platform resilient and available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead, including experience managing a large team or multiple teams.
• A track record of delivering pricing, monetization, subscription or checkout work in a consumer‑facing product.
• Experience running experiments and using data to decide what to build next.
• Hands‑on technical skills across the full stack, and enough familiarity with our stack to take part in design and code review. Experience with Java or Golang is required.
• Experience with AWS and microservices architecture is a plus.
• Working knowledge of billing and payment systems, and of payment security and compliance such as PCI‑DSS, is a plus.
• Proven ability to communicate with executives and cross‑functional leaders, and to explain technical decisions in terms of business impact.
• Experience delivering large‑scale, consumer‑facing systems in a fast‑paced environment.
• A demonstrated ability to recruit, inspire and grow engineering talent.
• Location: Austin or Dallas Texas candidates are highly preferred; we are hybrid, MW&T in office

Additional Information

Company Overview: Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world's leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today's families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.com's industry‑leading products—from child and elder care to pet care and home care.

Work Environment

Hybrid Preferred out of our Dallas or Austin offices - We are in the office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, Care does NOT hire in any of the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont.

Salary Range: $180,000 to $200,000. The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).