Vsco39

Senior Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$240k-$255kDetected 33 days ago

TypeScriptGoReactDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData ScienceCRMPhotographyLeadershipMentoring

About the role

For years, we've helped photographers create their work.
Now we're building what comes next.
Hiring, coaching, and developing the team.
Stay hands-on technically and lead as a player-coach.
Review code, directly contribute, and maintain a deep understanding of the systems your team owns, including how they integrate with the broader VSCO platform.
By staying close to the work, you'll bring informed perspectives to technical decisions, guide architectural direction, and help the team deliver high-quality solutions.
Defining and refining the roadmap with your team and XFN partners, breaking down work, setting success metrics, and holding the team accountable for delivering high-quality results.
Embracing "all problems are my problem." When your team or XFN partners hit a blocker, you help them get unstuck, whether that means escalating, adjusting scope, or having hard conversations.

5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience (including people management without the formal EM title) on user-facing products.
10+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time as a hands-on IC building production systems at scale.
Strong familiarity with at least a couple of major parts of our stack: Go, TypeScript/React/Node.js. You should be able to write, review, and reason about code across these stacks.
Product-sense that goes beyond management. You'll be collaborating with PMs and designers daily, and we need someone who can reason about scope, suggest alternatives, and help shape what we build - not just execute on a spec.
Demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in software development, coupled with a track record of leading team adoption and embedding AI-enabled practices that improve productivity, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency.
Commitment to people leadership, with demonstrated outcomes in facilitating team success and fostering a culture of technical rigor.
Ownership mentality. You resolve blockers for your team and XFN partners, drive decisions, and hold yourself accountable for the team's success.

Experience leading large technological migration initiatives
Experience with distributed systems
We also provide paid sick time as required by state and local law.
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of this background check, which includes state and federal criminal records checks, sex offender registry searches, and other relevant checks as permitted by law.
Be careful of fraudulent job posts.
If you receive outreach from someone claiming to work for VSCO, please verify they are communicating through the proper channels ( vsco.co email domain or through Greenhouse).

from creating and editing your work, to delivering it to clients, to running your business.
All of it built thoughtfully, with photographers leading the way.

The base salary for this position will vary based on several factors, such as relevant experience, location and your approved internal leveling assessed during the interview process.
The base salary range for this role is $240,000 - $255,000.
Salary is one component of our total compensation package.
We also provide paid sick time as required by state and local law.

Partnering with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams to cut through ambiguity, design shared primitives, and shape a shared product vision.
This position also qualifies for equity (i.e. stock options) and is eligible for discretionary bonuses based on performance.
The benefits available for this position include flexible time off, a 401K retirement plan, insurance (medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short and long term disability), and 11 paid holidays.
Additional benefits and perks contained in our standard employee benefits package are also offered for this position.

We build the connected system photographers rely on, and we've spent over a decade earning the trust of a global creative community that takes the craft seriously.
AI is reshaping what's possible for creative work, and that's where our mission shines.
As part of our hiring process, we conduct pre-employment background checks in compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

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