The Senior Engineering Manager – Fullstack Mobile role is a senior people and technology leader within Shipt’s Gig Operations engineering organization, responsible for leading 10+ engineers across mobile frontend and backend disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience, preferably building customer-facing or critical realtime systems.
- 2+ years of formal engineering people leadership, including managing multiple engineers or teams.
- Proven experience designing and delivering distributed, high-availability, scalable systems.
- Fullstack Mobile Engineering Expertise
- Ability to guide engineers across multiple disciplines: Frontend (React Native), Backend (Golang, REST APIs, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, scaling and resiliency patterns)
- Understanding of large-scale system design, domain-driven architecture, event modeling, and service contracts.
- Experience guiding modernization efforts — service decomposition, platform / vendor migrations, performance rewrites, observability upgrades.
- Strong fluency in SLOs/SLIs, incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability frameworks.
- Experience using engineering metrics to guide team-level continuous improvement.
- Ability to align engineering roadmaps with business OKRs, customer outcomes, and long-term strategy.
- Proven ability to scale engineering teams, including capacity planning, performance management, and leveling strategies.
- Experience in headcount planning, budgeting inputs, and strategic forecasting.
- Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
- Strategic Thinker: Operates at multi-quarter horizons with strong architectural and organizational awareness.
- Talent Multiplier: Develops senior engineers into future leaders; builds durable, high-performing teams.
- Influential Communicator: Navigates ambiguity and influences across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Operationally Excellent: Instills accountability, high quality craftsmanship, and strong on-call readiness.
- Culture Builder: Models a high degree of professionalism and professional maturity, and champions Shipt Values of Drive, Rally, Positivity, Authenticity, and Caring.
- AI-Forward Leader: Encourages responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices appropriate to engineering level and helps position Shipt for AI-native development.
- Courageous & Principled: Makes difficult decisions when needed, prioritizes ruthlessly, and knows how to pragmatically decide when to ship, when to “do it right,” and when to pay down tech debt.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and more
- 401k plan
- Discretionary vacation for exempt team members
- Paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Paid sick leave
- Annual bonus
- Restricted stock units based on role
