Engineering Manager

Join Favor, a leading on-demand delivery service, as an Engineering Manager. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers in building applications, services, and cloud infrastructure for Favor's product portfolio. You will manage individual contributors, facilitate goal-level creation, and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with business opportunities. You will also collaborate closely with product management and engineering, participate in architectural design, and strive to improve collaboration and communication.

• Lead a team of engineers to build applications, services, and cloud infrastructure for Favor's product portfolio across multiple platforms.
• Manage individual contributors, providing regular feedback, performance management, and career development conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process.

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• Passion for mentorship, guidance, and direct person to person interactions that create strong bonds among teams and individuals
• Ability to work with and lead other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
• Ability to oversee cross-platform engineering teams spanning mobile (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin) backend (Micronaut/Kotlin, PHP, Kafka) and modern web frontends (React, TypeScript, Next.js), supported by a strong foundation in modern enterprise Ops tech stacks including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Elasticsearch
• Possess a strong, high-level understanding of modern, cloud-native software development across the entire lifecycle—from mobile frontends to distributed backend microservices. You can confidently guide technical discussions, challenge architectural decisions, and unblock engineers across a diverse stack
• Excellent problem solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills
• Experience setting business expectations and scope as well as providing technology. recommendations
• Experience in both a high-growth startup and growing medium sized company is a plus
• Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects
• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in the principles of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks. You will leverage these metrics to champion developer experience, streamline delivery pipelines, and elevate code quality
• A love to learn and teach equally well and possess a growth mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams about engineering topics such as system architecture, API design, product roadmaps, and resourcing
• Ability to care deeply about people and help them become their best selves
• Track record of timely delivery of high quality software
• Ability to balance management and individual contributor responsibilities when needed and provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests
• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams
• A passionate advocate and practitioner of Lean and Agile methodologies, dedicated to continuous improvement, eliminating delivery bottlenecks, and empowering teams through autonomous, iterative development