Engineering Manager

Gloss Genius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 100,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on Gloss Genius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, Gloss Genius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

Gloss Genius has been empowering independent entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness space to pursue their dreams and successfully grow their businesses. As we continue to scale, we're strengthening our Growth Engineering team. As an Engineering Manager at Gloss Genius, you will lead a team critical to delivering value to our 100,000+ business owners.

Depending on the team, you'll either be supporting product engineering teams that build customer-facing experiences or platform engineering teams that provide the foundation and infrastructure for all of engineering. Your team will work across backend, frontend, and mobile stacks to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions. Whether you're driving features that directly impact our customers' success or enabling engineering velocity and reliability across the organization, your leadership will be key to helping Gloss Genius move faster, build better, and scale with confidence.

We default to being in-office 3-4 days per week with required attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

• Lead and develop a team of senior and staff engineers, understanding their skills and fostering their professional growth to achieve daily tasks and long-term career goals.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to define the long-term technical and product strategy and the necessary steps for its realization.
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure team and cross-functional alignment to execute key initiatives and achieve business results.
• Establish and implement effective engineering processes focused on quality and progress in key product initiatives.
• Collaborate with recruiting to build and retain a high‑performing engineering team by attracting top talent.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years as a people manager.
• Led two or more engineering pods with a proven ability to lead teams through technical leads or people managers.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with product/program managers, designers, and peers to develop plans, manage expectations, and deliver new products and features (0 to
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• Strong business acumen and customer‑centric approach, supported by data analytics skills.
• Solid technical understanding, capable of guiding technical discussions despite this being a non‑coding role.
• Experience in recruiting and building high‑performing teams for future Gloss Genius products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In‑person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co‑working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully‑paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit – employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development – employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational‑related expenses
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support

The starting base salary for this role is between $193,000 - $250,000 + target equity + benefits. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in Gloss Genius’s equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Software Development

At Gloss Genius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. Gloss Genius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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