Hybrid Software Engineering Manager, Consumer Solutions

at GoodLeap

• Job title: Software Engineering Manager, Consumer Solutions
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $183,000 - $213,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Dart, DynamoDB, Flutter, GraphQL, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Roseville, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager at GoodLeap, leading a full-stack team and enhancing sustainable home solutions. Guiding technical direction and mentoring engineers to deliver innovative consumer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead a full‑stack team delivering end‑to‑end features across Flutter (Dart) mobile, web and backend services (e.g., Node.js APIs), aligning work to business goals and customer experience.
• Set engineering standards for API design (OpenAPI/Swagger), mobile architecture, code quality, testing, and security.
• Own system architecture: design scalable, observable, and cost‑aware services; guide key decisions on data models, integration patterns, eventing, authN/Z.
• Partner with Product and Design to define clear problem statements, acceptance criteria and P50/P80 delivery plans; proactively surface risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs.
• Collaborate with Data teams to instrument the app and services(event schemas, data contracts), enable experimentation/feature flags, and ensure they have the telemetry and access needed to develop insights.
• Enable agents/GenAI features by shaping reliable tool endpoints, guardrails (privacy/PII handling, rate limits, redaction), and evaluation loops; coordinate with platform/ML partners.
• Drive operational excellence: define SLOs/error budgets, instrument metrics/logs/traces, maintain runbooks, manage on‑call, and lead incident reviews that improve reliability.
• Recruit, onboard, and grow engineers; run effective 1:1s, set growth plans, provide continuous feedback, and cultivate psychological safety and accountability.
• Conduct technical design and code reviews; mentor senior and junior engineers; raise the bar on simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
• Champion security and compliance best practices across mobile and backend (secrets management, secure storage, least privilege, threat modeling).

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience managing engineers
• 8+ years of experience in backend development
• Strong experience in Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and REST APIs
• Deep familiarity with AWS architecture, especially Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, and Step Functions
• Experience building and integrating LLM features (e.g., via OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or similar), including prompt design, vector storage, and retrieval strategies
• Fluency in system design principles, scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance
• Ability to drive clarity and make architectural tradeoffs, balancing idealism with pragmatism
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively across product and engineering orgs.

Benefits

• In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for cash bonus and equity compensation