Dispatch
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SeniorEngineeringManager
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“Senior Engineering Manager at Dispatch. Skills: Engineering management, Team building, Product delivery. Lead product engineering teams. Own engineering execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Build right things; Ship on time; Ship with consistency; Ship with quality; Reduce recurrence; Increase system reliability
Industry & Context.
Unblocking hard problems; Root cause analysis
On-call posture
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years software engineering, 5+ years IC engineer, 5+ years managing teams, Growing and scaling organization
Nice to Have
Experience at early-stage startup, Experience founding or building, Experience with AI prompting, Experience with Golang, Experience with Postgres, Experience with AWS, Experience with Messaging, Experience with fintech APIs, Experience with APIs-as-a-product, Experience with B2B products, Experience with data-intensive platforms, Experience with enterprise customers
What You'll Do.
Lead product engineering teams
Own engineering execution
Sequence roadmaps with Product
Communicate cross-functional progress
Serve as connective tissue
Create culture of standards
Create culture of ownership
Create culture of craft
Ensure timely shipping
Ensure quality shipping
Partner with staff engineers
Partner with tech leads
Identify acceleration opportunities
Serve as escalation point
Coordinate resolution
Manage incident response
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional progress; Connective tissue Product/Engineering; Work with Product; Work with Design; Coordinate with CS; Coordinate with Product
Communication Scope
Cross-functional communication
Process & Methodology
Roadmap sequencing, Project scoping, Timeline accountability, Milestone planning
Full Job Description
Role overview: - Lead one of Dispatch's product engineering teams — the team responsible for our core user workflow and data orchestration platform. - Own engineering execution end to end: roadmap sequencing with Product, project scoping, timeline accountability, and cross-functional progress communication. - Serve as the connective tissue between Product and Engineering — ensuring the team builds the right things in the right order, at the pace the business demands. - Drive engineering hiring end-to-end: headcount planning, JDs, interview loops, and closing. What you'll own: - Team Building & Development — Hire, onboard, and develop a growing team of engineers. Create a culture of high standards, ownership, and craft — making Dispatch an exceptional place to build. - Engineering Execution — Own the delivery system: project scoping, milestone planning, timeline accountability, and stakeholder communication. Ensure the team ships on time, with consistency and quality, across the core product, integrations, and platform. - Engineering Acceleration — Partner with staff engineers and tech leads who own technical decisions and architecture. Your job is to remove friction, raise the floor, and identify opportunities to accelerate the team through better tooling and automation. - Cross-Functional Operating Model — Work closely with Product and Design to triage, prioritize, and sequence work. Serve as the escalation point for customer-impacting engineering issues and coordinate resolution with CS and Product. - Incident & Production Management — Own the team's on-call posture, incident response process, and post-mortems. Drive improvements that reduce recurrence and increase system reliability. Experience & Background: - 10+ years in software engineering, including meaningful time as an IC and as an Engineering Manager. - 5+ years as an individual contributor engineer, with a track record of shipping high-quality, high-complexity systems - 5+ years managing engineering team
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