Job Description

Location: Seattle, WA (preferred); remote within WA, OR or CA considered 

Salary: $185,000 – $212,000 plus bonus

Sniffies is a location-based, interactive web app designed to help gay, bi, and curious individuals connect in a safe, judgment-free environment. Using an innovative map interface, users can discover nearby individuals and popular meetup spots and join live video chats. The platform is accessible on any device with a browser, so users can engage without downloads. Sniffies fosters an open, team-driven culture that focuses on creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to positively impacting the community.

About the role

This is a new Engineering Manager role within our Engineering organization. You will lead a team of 7–9 engineers, with a particular focus on trust and safety. You will support your engineers' growth while strengthening the quality and integrity of our systems.

You will partner closely with stakeholders across product, trust and safety, and infrastructure to ensure timely delivery, platform stability, and a seamless user experience. You will do this while scaling a team that moves fast without breaking things.

This is a people leadership role first. You will stay close to the technical work through code review and architectural oversight rather than day-to-day coding.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Execution

• Work with frontend and backend engineers to ensure feature velocity, sound architecture, and system reliability.
• Lead code reviews, particularly for backend work, to safeguard quality and build architectural understanding across the team.
• Remove blockers for engineers by working with internal systems, external vendors, and cross-functional partners.
• Take ownership of core technical problems within your team.

Team Leadership and Growth

• Hold regular 1:1s to understand each engineer's strengths, technical interests, and career goals.
• Assign work that balances company objectives with individual growth.
• Build and improve onboarding, documentation, and feedback processes that scale with the team.

Hiring

• Identify resourcing gaps and write clear, compelling job descriptions.
• Lead hiring, including sourcing, interviewing, and evaluating candidates.

Engineering Excellence

• Establish and evolve development processes that improve reliability, observability, and code quality.
• Encourage a culture of testing, documentation, and thoughtful tech debt management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership or engineering management.
• Strong full-stack fundamentals, with deeper expertise in backend systems, distributed architecture, and platform reliability.
• Proven experience leading code reviews and maintaining high-quality software delivery in production.
• A track record of growing and mentoring engineers at different levels.
• Clear communication and a builder's mindset: you're motivated by outcomes, not just output.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience addressing spam, bots, fraud, or abuse (strongly preferred).
• Familiarity with modern web stacks such as Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Experience with observability tooling.
• Experience with ML-based spam detection systems.

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