
Senior Engineering Manager, Client Platform
Homebase (YC W21)
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $230,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and grow two platform teams
- Manage the Frontend Platform and Mobile Platform teams.
- Set a high bar for technical excellence, accountability, and sustainable velocity.
- Develop strong leaders and create clear ownership boundaries across web and mobile platform domains.
- Establish a cohesive architecture vision across web, iOS, and Android.
- Drive improvements in shared frameworks, design systems, CI/CD, testing strategy, release processes, observability, and performance foundations.
- Increase reuse and consistency across surfaces while enabling product teams to move independently.
- Invest in tooling, automation, and internal platforms that reduce friction and cognitive load for product engineers.
- Measure and improve key signals such as cycle time, defect rates, release stability, and developer satisfaction.
- Standardize best practices across client engineering.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development workflows across frontend and mobile engineering, including code generation, testing, debugging, and release validation.
- Partner with AI and Data teams to ensure our client foundations support AI-powered and agentic product capabilities.
- Set measurable expectations around AI-enabled productivity gains.
- Review designs and architectural proposals.
- Unblock complex cross-team technical challenges.
- Ensure platform investments translate into tangible gains for product teams.
- Build strong in-office working rhythms that reinforce trust, alignment, and fast decision-making across hubs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with depth in frontend and/or mobile development.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior engineers and/or managers.
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling teams that support multiple product teams.
- Strong architectural judgment across client technologies such as web frontend frameworks, iOS, and Android.
- Demonstrated ability to improve developer productivity through platform investments, automation, and AI tooling.
- Track record of balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform leverage.
- Clear, direct communicator who combines empathy with decisiveness.
- AI fluency is core to how we build.
Benefits
- Stock options + 401(k) with 4% match
- Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options
- Unlimited PTO (salaried) + company holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service)
- Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage
- Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly
- Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
frontend developmentmobile developmentCI/CDtesting strategydesign systemsautomationAI-assisted developmentcode generationdebuggingrelease validation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationempathydecisivenessaccountabilityorganizational skillscollaborationtrust buildingalignmentdecision-making