Engineering Manager

Position:
Engineering Manager

Company:
Zoom

Compensation:
Minimum: $124,000.00
Maximum: $271,200.00

Location:
United States

Employment type:
Full time

Work Arrangement:
Remote

Short Summary:
This role grows and inspires the engineering organization at Common Room, combining technical leadership with company-building impact. The manager will guide engineering strategy, scale the team, and ensure delivery of systems that are robust, reliable, and delightful for customers.

Responsibilities:
- Defining and execute engineering strategy: Align technical direction with business goals, balancing velocity with quality and scalability.
- Building and scaling the team: Recruit, retain, and mentor world-class engineers and managers, while fostering career growth and leadership development.
- Driving execution at scale: Ensure timely delivery of complex, high-impact projects across the stack, with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure.
- Partnering cross-functionally: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape the roadmap and deliver on company priorities.
- Championing engineering excellence: Establish standards for architecture, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Fostering culture: Create a psychologically safe environment where teams can innovate, take ownership, and do their best work.
- Company-building: Contribute to hiring practices, onboarding, organizational design, and other initiatives that support growth as a startup.

Requirement:
- Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading teams (people management and technical leadership).
- Have experience scaling engineering organizations at a fast-growing startup or tech company.
- Demonstrate deep sense of judgment on tradeoffs, architecture, and tooling; favoring supported, stable technologies over trends.
- Display proven ability to deliver large, complex projects while keeping teams unblocked and motivated.
- Demonstrate deep familiarity with backend systems, distributed architecture, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Postgres; Node.js/TypeScript experience).
- Track record of building diverse, high-performing teams and fostering an inclusive, feedback-rich culture.
- Have the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels — comfortable in code reviews one moment and board-level discussions the next.

Benefits:
As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways.