Homebase (YC W21)

Senior Engineering Manager, Client Platform

Homebase (YC W21)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $270,000 per year

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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