Favor

Engineering Manager

Favor • $120K — $150K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in software engineering or related field.
  • 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in leadership roles.
  • Deep understanding of cloud-native software development across mobile, backend, and web.
  • Experience managing cross-platform engineering teams using various technologies.
  • Commitment to Lean and Agile methodologies for continuous improvement.
  • Strong mentoring, motivating, and leadership capabilities.
  • Experience in both high-growth startups and medium-sized companies is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a software engineering team, overseeing performance and career development.
  • Empower team members to optimize their performance and deliver high-quality results.
  • Facilitate the establishment of team goals in alignment with organizational objectives.
  • Ensure technical projects align with business opportunities through strategic planning.
  • Identify improvements in standards and tools, implementing enhancements where necessary.
  • Evaluate new technologies to streamline engineering processes and product creation.
  • Collaborate with product management to prioritize features and development efforts.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work directly with high-performing teams in a collaborative environment.
  • Access to modern cloud technologies and tools for professional growth.
  • Professional development opportunities focused on mentorship and leadership.
  • Focus on improving developer experience and work-life balance.
  • Engagement with diverse technologies and cross-functional teams for personal enrichment.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do:

  • Manage a team of individual contributors including responsibility for 1:1s, giving regular feedback, performance management and career development conversations
  • Empower the team to deliver their very best.
  • Facilitate goal-level creation for the broader function and work with other managers to support setting of team level goals.
  • Understand the fundamentals of the business and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with the business opportunities.
  • Identify and implement enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.
  • Evaluate new technology solutions and partnerships to accelerate the engineering and product organization
  • Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process.
  • Participate in architectural design and coordinate with other software engineering managers as needed for a consistent approach within the suite of applications.
  • Consistently strive to improve collaboration and communications.
  • Partner with leaders to identify and plan capabilities required to meet customer needs.
  • Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to determine priorities and impact.


Skills you have:

  • A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 passionate advocate and practitioner of Lean and Agile methodologies, dedicated to continuous improvement, eliminating delivery bottlenecks, and empowering teams through autonomous, iterative development.
  • Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects.
  • 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.


Who you are:

  • 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 work with and lead other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
  • Excellent problem solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills.
  • Track record of timely delivery of high quality software.
  • Passion for mentorship, guidance, and direct person to person interactions that create strong bonds among teams and individuals.
  • Ability to care deeply about people and help them become their best selves.
  • A love to learn and teach equally well and possess a growth mindset.
  • Ability to balance management and individual contributor responsibilities when needed and provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests.

About Favor

Favor Delivery is a same-day delivery and online food ordering platform headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company was founded in 2013 and was acquired by San Antonio, Texas-based regional supermarket chain H-E-B in 2018. Following the acquisition, Favor CEO, Jag Bath, was named chief digital officer of H-E-B while remaining Favor CEO. Starting by serving major cities in Texas, Favor expanded between 2013 and 2016 to serve a total of 23 cities in the United States and Canada. However, in June 2016 it pulled out of Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and 3 other major cities in the US, shut down operations in Toronto in December, and in January 2017 pulled out of the remaining cities it had served outside Texas. The company continued operations in 15 cities in Texas. By November 2019, Favor operated in 130 cities across Texas.
Learn more about Favor
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Founded
2012
* Ladders Estimates

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