Engineering Manager leading backend services, APIs, and distributed systems for Slice’s technology platform supporting local pizzerias. Building high - performing teams and improving customer and engineering outcomes.
About the role
- Engineering Manager leading backend services teams at Slice, whose technology supports tens of thousands of local pizzerias. Driving technical direction, team performance, and customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Identify the problems most worth solving with Product, Design, Data, and Operations
- Define success through measurable value for pizzerias, customers, and the business
- Guide architecture and engineering decisions across owned services
- Balance speed, reliability, simplicity, and long-term system health
- Lead and develop a high-agency engineering team
- Give engineers context, decision boundaries, and meaningful ownership
- Remove blockers and work across organizational boundaries
- Raise execution standards and build lightweight mechanisms for focus and learning
- Use customer feedback, product data, incidents, and operational metrics to evaluate decisions
- Hire, retain, coach, and develop engineers
- Address underperformance clearly and promptly
- Build relationships with engineering, product, and business leaders
- Influence through judgment and results rather than hierarchy
- Report to an Engineering Director and collaborate with managers and technical leaders
Requirements
- Experience building and operating customer-facing software or platforms
- Experience managing high-performing engineering teams
- Strong technical judgment across backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations
- Experience with Python, Go, Ruby, or comparable backend technologies
- A record of improving both customer outcomes and engineering effectiveness
- Ability to turn complex, ambiguous problems into clear direction
- Founder-minded approach: resourceful, decisive, intellectually curious, and unwilling to wait for perfect conditions
- Strong instincts for leverage—knowing when to move quickly and when deeper investment is necessary
- Courage to challenge weak thinking, including your own
- Clear, direct communication across technical and non-technical audiences
- Low ego, high standards, and a strong sense of personal accountability
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time-off policies
- Employee well-being allowance for eligible employees
- Market-leading maternity and paternity schemes
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