Engineering Manager

ABOUT POSH We are all social creatures, but the dominant “social” companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges around the world. Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back. Posh enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests, while connecting consumers with the communities of people just like them. Founded by event organizers who were frustrated with the growing loneliness epidemic and the tools available to build their own event brand, we’ve built the ultimate platform for launching, monetizing, and finding IRL communities of people just like you. In just 6 years, Posh has grown to a team of 70, expanded to 8M+ users, secured $70m in venture funding, and facilitated over $350M in transactions. ABOUT THE ROLE Posh is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5-8 highly motivated engineers building the technology behind our mission to bring people together through shared, real-world experiences. You’ll sit at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, owning the delivery and technical quality of 1 of our 2 core pods: Organizer (b2b) & Consumer (social). You’ll be responsible for building and scaling systems that empower organizers to launch and monetize IRL communities, while delivering delightful social discovery experiences for consumers. This role is for a highly technical individual who has shifted to the management track in the last few years, gaining energy and excitement from democratizing their expertise throughout teams. This role is roughly 70% people and delivery leadership and 30% hands-on technical contribution (e.g., architectural guidance, code and design reviews, setting and enforcing standards, unblocking complex technical challenges, and occasionally building small, exemplar features). The exact split will vary week to week, but performance is indexed first on management impact, without lowering the technical bar. You'll help your team ship reliably and efficiently while balancing short-term execution with long-term system health.. This is an in-person role based in our New York City office in the heart of SoHo. Building live experiences and building with soul are important for our customers, and we believe being and working together as a team is the best way for Posh to feel and achieve this. Events on Posh are fun, alive, and driven with passion; we mirror this in how we collaborate, IRL every day. WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE: - Lead and grow a pod of 5–8 engineers through mentorship, performance management, and technical direction. - Identify high-slope talent, make hard decisions on low performers, and establish & execute against a clear hiring strategy that continues to raise the bar for excellence on your team. - Achieve the closest possible thing to building a perfect product; scrutinizing and iterating on every process and technology decision made across your team, while balancing velocity with long-term system health and product excellence - Align with cross-functional stakeholders to highlight the importance/prioritize non-customer facing work (infra, dev ops, etc) against feature improvements, ensuring we build for scale while continuing to provide our users with ever-evolving features. - Actively participate in RFC reviews, architectural discussions, and system design conversations - Confidently challenge Staff-level decisions when assumptions, tradeoffs, or risks warrant it - Raise and maintain a high bar for code quality, reliability, and performance as the platform scales. Implement and enforce processes that ensure quality over everything. - Collaborate with leadership & product management to translate product strategy/features into clear technical plans, milestones, and execution paths with clear delivery timelines. - Proactively introduce and evaluate new technologies pragmatically, including modern AI tools and workflows that meaningfully increase product velocity and deve