Engineering Manager

Warby Parker is on the lookout for an Engineer Manager to help drive the evolution of our mission critical frontend clients. In this role you’ll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy and standards of the Warby Parker web applications. You’ll also help establish best practices and guidance around all aspects of our technology in order to help build a best-in-class technology discipline. Think you’ve got the goods? Keep reading.

What you’ll do:

• Build and lead a team of Engineers and contractors through hiring, coaching, mentorship, feedback, and career development
• Help build and design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, and reliable systems that drive incredible customer experiences
• Drive the execution and delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, product managers, SREs, and other engineers
• Build a metrics-driven operational culture support our practices for KPI measurement and review, as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
• Propose and drive large improvements to systems to achieve significant impact to our business
• Act as a player/coach - both mentoring and coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges and grow overall technical prowesses, as well as delivering on architecture design and development of your own
• Lead on adoption of agentic engineering practices & tools to drive productivity, safety, and creativity in the web team

Who you are:

• Backed by 7+ years of relevant work experience, with direct management of at least 6 people
• Experienced building modern and performant frontend applications with more modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) in a professional setting
• Someone with deep technical experience with web infrastructure, performance, and operations who has experience delivering high-scale/high-performance web applications in an e-commerce setting
• Work closely with Product Management to ensure the delivery of high-performing applications and services
• Ensure the timely delivery of engineering work to meet business needs and architecture standards
• Build a metrics-driven operational culture, helping build out our practices for KPI measurement and review (as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices)
• Demonstrate an unbeatable drive for results, a focus on customer empathy, and a long-term vision for software products, continually delivering work in an agile and iterative manner
• Keep your team engaged and excited about their work
• Establish, monitor, and maintain fantastic communication across departments to ensure transparency around how product work is prioritized and managed, as well as how key metrics are performing
• Set and enforce the highest standards in software production, adhering to our core values of trust and transparency

Extra credit:

• Experience working with Vercel, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes and modern web infrastructure
• Experience working with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, ElasticSearch
• Experience in agentic clients and architectures