Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing tools for licensed cannabis businesses. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to build and evolve the technology for their eCommerce marketplace, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, supporting their day-to-day effectiveness, technical growth, career development, and long-term goals
- Serve as the technical leader for your team, establishing technical direction and ensuring engineers make sound architectural and software design decisions
- Maintain a deep understanding of your team's systems and technical domain, providing meaningful guidance on architecture, implementation strategy, scalability, reliability, security, and operational readiness
- Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps, sequence initiatives, identify dependencies, and develop realistic short- and long-term delivery plans
- Translate product and business objectives into clear technical strategies, ensuring the team understands not only what it is building but why and how the pieces fit together
- Lead the technical planning and execution of complex initiatives from initial discovery and design through implementation, release, and production operation
- Work with engineers and technical leaders to ensure appropriate investment in platform health, technical debt, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and developer efficiency alongside product priorities
- Identify technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery constraints early, and work with Product and Engineering leadership to make informed tradeoffs and adjust plans when necessary
- Drive accountability for team commitments while creating an environment where risks and challenges are surfaced early and addressed constructively
- Coordinate with other Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and technical leaders to manage cross-team dependencies and ensure architectural consistency across the broader platform
- Establish and evolve engineering practices and architectural standards that address the unique complexities of LeafLink's business while complementing broader organizational standards
- Improve team effectiveness by using delivery metrics, retrospectives, operational data, and qualitative feedback to identify bottlenecks and drive meaningful improvements
- Ensure the team maintains a healthy, well-understood backlog with sufficient technical discovery and refinement to support predictable execution
- Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting, providing technical leadership during complex incidents and ensuring systemic improvements are identified and implemented
- Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent while building an inclusive environment where engineers can do their best work
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and creating measurable impact through technical direction, people development, and effective execution
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture, system design, and implementation decisions without needing to personally own every line of code
- A proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through successful production delivery
- Experience developing engineers across multiple career stages, including coaching senior engineers and helping technical leaders expand their influence and impact
- Strong experience with modern full-stack application development, including frontend applications, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and data stores
- Experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, including technologies such as React and Node.js
- Experience designing, building, or leading teams responsible for service-oriented, API-driven, event-driven, or distributed architectures
- Strong understanding of relational databases, asynchronous processing, messaging systems, third-party integrations, and transactional workflows
- Experience incrementally modernizing legacy systems while continuing to deliver customer and business value
- Experience balancing product delivery with investments in technical debt, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and developer productivity
- Strong delivery and project leadership skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk identification, estimation, sequencing, and cross-functional coordination
- Experience using delivery and operational metrics to identify patterns, improve team effectiveness, and increase predictability without reducing engineering work to simplistic productivity measurements
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and modern delivery practices, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions, build alignment, navigate disagreements, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly understand complex systems, identify underlying problems, and drive pragmatic solutions
- A leadership approach that creates accountability, develops technical talent, and enables engineers to take increasing ownership of complex problems
- Experience with eCommerce, B2B marketplaces, financial systems, or other transaction-heavy platforms is strongly preferred
- Experience working in highly regulated industries with significant compliance requirements—such as cannabis, healthcare, financial services, or payments—is a plus
Benefits
- Flexible PTO—you’re going to be working hard, so enjoy time off with no cap.
- A robust stock option plan that gives employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success.
- Five days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO), supporting employees who want to give back and cultivate stronger communities.
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) match.
- Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Commuter benefits through our Flexible Spending Account.
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