Engineering Manager

Smalls are looking for an Engineering Manager who is equally passionate about leading people and building great software. In this role, you’ll be both a mentor and a maker—helping your team grow, shaping the culture of engineering, and directly contributing to the architecture and code that power our systems.

What You'll Do:

• Lead, mentor, hire and grow a small team of software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, growth and learning.

• Partner with product and design to align engineering priorities with business goals.

• Define and evolve a technical roadmap with the ability to articulate why to the business.

• Evaluate our current architecture, system design, tools and influence the set-up for the next stage of growth for the organization.

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance monitoring.

• Contribute directly to the codebase (~60% of your time), setting the standard for quality and craftsmanship.

• Establish team rituals - reviews, refinement, incident management, on-call duty, retros—that make us stronger and faster together.

What we'll love about you:

• 2+ years of engineering leadership/management experience.

• Prior experience working as a Sr. Engineer/Staff engineer with deep technical expertise and architectural experience.

• A player-coach: skilled at balancing IC work with leadership responsibilities.

• Experienced in building strong engineering cultures and improving teams.

• Strong communicator who can bridge technical and business discussions.

• Pragmatic and product-driven—you know when to move fast and when to build for the long term.

• Huge plus: experience working on DTC and subscription services.

• Huge plus: experience with React, React router (SSR), and Ruby on Rails.

• Huge plus: experience with tools like Heroku, Postgres, Shopify, Stripe, and Contentful.

What you’ll love about us:

• Mission-Driven Company: We love cats and we're here to make nine lives ten.

• People-Driven Company: We treat our people like people; we're committed to Smalls, and we work hard but also respect everyone’s lives outside of work.

• Data-Driven Culture: We love using data to guide decision-making where appropriate, but we also know when to move quickly and go with our gut.

• Competitive Salary: Make some $$$.

• Very Competitive Benefits: Fully paid Health, Vision, and Dental insurance. 4-day work week. Unlimited PTO.

• Fully Remote Office & Culture: Our team is spread across the US day to day, but we travel for department & company off-sites and retreats.

• Free Product: Free cat food every month.