Engineering Manager

We are all social creatures, but the dominant “social” companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges around the world.

Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back.

Posh enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests, while connecting consumers with the communities of people just like them. Founded by event organizers who were frustrated with the growing loneliness epidemic and the tools available to build their own event brand, we’ve built the ultimate platform for launching, monetizing, and finding IRL communities of people just like you. In just 5 years, Posh has grown to a team of 65, expanded to 7M+ users, secured $70m in venture funding, and facilitated over $300M in transactions.

Posh is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5-8 highly motivated engineers building the technology behind our mission to bring people together through shared, real-world experiences.

You’ll sit at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, owning the delivery and technical quality of 1 of our 2 core pods: Organizer (b2b) & Consumer (social). You’ll be responsible for building and scaling systems that empower organizers to launch and monetize IRL communities, while delivering delightful social discovery experiences for consumers.

This role is for a highly technical individual who has shifted to the management track in the last few years, gaining energy and excitement from democratizing their expertise throughout teams.

This role is roughly 70% people and delivery leadership and 30% hands-on technical contribution (e.g., architectural guidance, code and design reviews, setting and enforcing standards, unblocking complex technical challenges, and occasionally building small, exemplar features). The exact split will vary week to week, but performance is indexed first on management impact, without lowering the technical bar. You'll help your team ship reliably and efficiently while balancing short-term execution with long-term system health..

This is an in-person role based in our New York City office in the heart of SoHo. Building live experiences and building with soul are important for our customers, and we believe being and working together as a team is the best way for Posh to feel and achieve this. Events on Posh are fun, alive, and driven with passion; we mirror this in how we collaborate, IRL every day.

• Lead and grow a pod of 5–8 engineers through mentorship, performance management, and technical direction.

• Identify high-slope talent, make hard decisions on low performers, and establish & execute against a clear hiring strategy that continues to raise the bar for excellence on your team.

• Achieve the closest possible thing to building a perfect product; scrutinizing and iterating on every process and technology decision made across your team, while balancing velocity with long-term system health and product excellence

• Align with cross-functional stakeholders to highlight the importance/prioritize non-customer facing work (infra, dev ops, etc) against feature improvements, ensuring we build for scale while continuing to provide our users with ever-evolving features.

• Actively participate in RFC reviews, architectural discussions, and system design conversations

• Confidently challenge Staff-level decisions when assumptions, tradeoffs, or risks warrant it

• Raise and maintain a high bar for code quality, reliability, and performance as the platform scales. Implement and enforce processes that ensure quality over everything.

• Collaborate with leadership & product management to translate product strategy/features into clear technical plans, milestones, and execution paths with clear delivery timelines.

• Proactively introduce and evaluate new technologies pragmatically, including modern AI tools and workflows that meaningfully increase product velocity and developer experience.

• Model urgency, ownership, and technical rigor as a trusted technical leader within the organization.

• 3+ years of engineering management experience

• 7+ years of professional software development experience: you were at least a Senior Engineer before moving into management, ideally Staff level.

• You still actively program outside of work; you are passionate about the latest technologies and get excited about sharing your learnings to develop more junior engineers.

• You have proven experience leading technically complex, consumer-facing or marketplace products with millions of users.

• You have deep experience with system design and large-scale production systems.

• You have a track record of mentoring engineers through real technical work, not just process. You can point to clear examples where you have up-leveled talent through your guidance.

• You have strong product intuition and comfort navigating ambiguity, making tradeoffs, and aligning engineering work to product and business goals.

• You have excellent communication skills: you know how to command a room and run a meeting, but also know when to listen & create a strong space for collaborative ideas to flourish.

• You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, founder-led environment with high expectations

Frontend:

• Web: React, NextJS

• Mobile: React Native, Expo

• Typescript

• Tailwind CSS

Backend:

• NodeJS, Typescript, Express, TRPC

• Java, Spring Boot

• MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL

Infrastructure:

• AWS: Cloudfront & Lambda@Edge, Lambda, ECS & Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, DocumentDB

• GCP: Cloudrun

• Terraform, Docker

Posh provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Posh is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability