Senior Engineering Manager

Curology is a company dedicated to making effective, personalized skincare accessible to everyone. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing engineering team, balancing hands-on coding with leadership to ensure delivery of impactful solutions for patients and the business.

Responsibilities:

• Write production code alongside your team, while setting technical direction and ensuring thoughtful architecture
• Pair with engineers, conduct code reviews, architecture reviews, and model best practices to ship high-quality features at pace
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers to reach their full potential while aligning on shared outcomes
• Celebrate team wins, and put mission and patients above ego
• Own engineering metrics around velocity, quality, and reliability, serving as the primary driver of team execution and outcomes
• Partner closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs), who support delivery by facilitating scrum ceremonies and providing data, insights, and KPIs around team performance
• Build systems for accountability, transparency, and clear follow-through
• Partner with the Head of Engineering and Data, TPMs, and peers across Product, Design, Medical, and Data to connect the dots, align execution at scale, and drive company-wide impact
• Create an environment where engineers can surface ideas and concerns openly
• Once a decision is made, drive alignment and focus to execute together
• Encourage exploration of new technologies, ask thoughtful questions, and enable your team to test and learn while staying outcome-oriented
• Model integrity and rigor in every decision—whether with your team, our cross-functional partners, or our patients

Requirements:

• Technical Expertise: 6+ years in web-focused software engineering, with recent, hands-on coding experience
• Leadership Experience: 4+ years leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally in a player-coach model
• Modern Tech Stack Skills: Proficiency in Laravel (or similar backend frameworks), Python, Node, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or similar frontend frameworks), CSS-in-JS
• Product Orientation: Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs, make pragmatic product/engineering decisions, and connect technical work to business outcomes
• Execution Mindset: Proven history of shipping software reliably and predictably while maintaining quality
• Collaborative Spirit: Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to adapt based on audience
• Bias Toward Action: Dependable, decisive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity to drive impact
• This is a remote position, but preference will be given to candidates who are located near or willing to travel to our Los Angeles or San Diego hubs