Favor

Engineering Manager

Favor$125K — $150K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Related degree or equivalent experience required.
  • 7+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership role.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native software development across the lifecycle.
  • Oversee cross-platform teams in mobile, backend, and web development.
  • Experience with modern enterprise Ops tech stacks.
  • Knowledge of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks to improve engineering culture.
  • Mentorship experience in guiding teams through software projects.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop engineering team members through regular feedback and performance management.
  • Empower team to achieve optimal performance and innovation.
  • Align technical roadmap with business objectives and opportunities.
  • Enhance standards and processes to streamline engineering functions.
  • Evaluate technologies and partnerships to benefit the organization.
  • Collaborate with product management as a key stakeholder in product development.
  • Oversee architectural design discussions and maintain consistent practices across applications.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a high-performing engineering team.
  • Engage in a culture of continuous improvement and Agile methodologies.
  • Professional development through mentorship and team empowerment.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
Full Job Description
As the Engineering Manager, you will help create the tools and applications necessary to connect customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams. You will lead a team of engineers who build applications, services, and cloud infrastructure for Favor's product portfolio across multiple platforms including microservices, web, iOS, and Android and work closely with engineering and product leadership to instill a culture of quality and iterative development across all engineering disciplines and increase the quality, confidence, and reliability of everything Favor builds. 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.
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