Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shoplift is a rapidly scaling company that provides an A/B testing platform specifically for Shopify merchants. The Engineering Manager will oversee a team of engineers, manage project initiatives, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software while maintaining team health and performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage 5–7 engineers: weekly 1:1s, growth plans, performance management. Know each report's strengths, growth areas, and career goals — and have a plan for each
- Give timely, specific feedback in both directions. Calibrate using our IC competency matrix
- Monitor team health — burnout, disengagement, interpersonal friction — and act early. Protect sustainable pace and push back when workload is unreasonable
- Own initiative coordination across the org: kickoffs, status, risks, and cross-team dependencies. Keep initiatives on track within fixed appetites (2/4/6 weeks — time is fixed, scope is flexible) and surface slippage early, not at the deadline
- Partner with product on shaping and scope trade-offs; translate engineering context for product partners — why something is harder than it looks, what the options are
- Run the operational cadence: ensure retros happen and produce real improvements, on-call rotation stays healthy and fairly loaded, QA has bandwidth, incident action items and COEs actually get closed
- Match people to initiatives based on growth goals and strengths, not just availability
- Run structured, calibrated hiring loops and own onboarding
- Spot retention risk early
- Communicate team status, risks, and wins to VP of Engineering. Document decisions and rationale
- Stay hands-on enough to earn trust: review code regularly, pick up implementation work when it's the fastest path, contribute to architecture discussions
- Occasionally act as Initiative Tech Lead on a smaller initiative when staffing demands it — exception, not the operating model
- Evaluate IC technical work credibly: know the difference between Senior-quality and Staff-quality output
- Fix broken windows: systematize recurring friction in tooling and process, pragmatically
Skills
- 2+ years managing engineers: hired, coached, given hard feedback, managed someone up or out
- Demonstrated project management of multi-week, cross-functional software projects: scoping, phasing, risk management, status communication, and scope negotiation under fixed timelines
- Enough recent technical depth in C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Kubernetes to review code credibly and earn IC trust
- Track record operating a ship-continuously culture: small batches, feature flags, fixed-time/flexible-scope delivery
- Excellent written communication; comfortable in an async-first, written-decisions culture
- Stage fit: has operated in a <30-person company
Benefits
- Significant equity in a high-growth startup
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous PTO, including paid parental leave
- Professional development budget
Company Overview
Shoplift is the first A/B testing platform purpose-built for Shopify stores. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.shoplift.ai/.