Engineering Manager

About the job

Location: New York NY (hybrid 4 days/week in office)

Reports to: CEO

Compensation: Starting at $200K + meaningful equity
 

About Us

At Givers we believe in a future where family members can sustainably care for one another. We enroll support and pay family caregivers through state Medicaid programs.
 

We're a tech-enabled service with a product that fades into the background and enables human care. We use technology to empower caregivers to be caregivers and coaches to be coaches.
 

We are proudly building an in-office culture in NYC and are looking for people energized by working together in person.
 

Job Description

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead our engineering function as we scale from an early-stage system into a robust multi-state platform.

You will own how things get built at Givers — from system architecture to execution from developer workflows to production reliability. You will partner closely with Product to translate direction into clear high-quality execution while establishing the systems and standards that allow the team to scale.
 

This is not a pure management role and not a pure IC role. You will be responsible for the performance of the engineering team while maintaining enough technical depth to guide architecture unblock complex problems and ensure high standards.
 

Responsibilities

• Establish a reliable execution engine across the team including sprint planning scoping ownership and delivery
• Partner closely with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and tradeoffs
• Own system architecture and technical direction ensuring systems are modular scalable and maintainable
• Push back on unclear or over-scoped work and help sequence priorities effectively
• Improve engineering velocity by reducing ambiguity and ensuring engineers always have clear actionable work
• Build and improve engineering systems and workflows (CI/CD testing deployment developer experience)
• Own production reliability including debugging incident response and blameless postmortems
• Evolve how the team leverages AI tools to accelerate development and increase shared engineering context while maintaining code quality and system understanding
• Maintain hands-on familiarity with the codebase and step in selectively on high-complexity problems to unblock the team
• Build manage and develop a high-performing engineering team with clear ownership and high standards
• Own hiring and onboarding of engineers as the team grows
• Own security compliance and data protection across systems including SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering work is predictable well-scoped and consistently delivered on time
• The system evolves toward modular flexible architecture without unnecessary complexity
• Product and Engineering operate as tight partners with clear ownership and strong alignment
• Engineering velocity improves without increasing team size
• Production systems are stable issues are resolved quickly and failures lead to lasting improvements
• Security and compliance are proactively maintained not reactively addressed
   

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with experience leading or managing engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience building and shipping production systems (ideally across web and/or mobile stacks)
• Proven ability to own system architecture and make sound technical decisions that balance speed scalability and maintainability
• Experience translating ambiguous product requirements into clear technical plans tradeoffs and execution
• Track record of improving engineering team performance including delivery code quality and developer experience
• Experience building or improving engineering systems and workflows (CI/CD testing deployment monitoring)
• Experience owning or contributing to production reliability including debugging incident response and postmortems
• Familiarity with modern development environments and comfort working across a full-stack system (Rails React React Native GCP Postgres or similar)
• Experience hiring mentoring and developing engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on outcomes not just process
• Clear direct communicator who can work effectively across engineering product and leadership
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building structure where it doesn’t yet exist
   

Givers Values

• Impact Over Flash: We chase outcomes not shiny objects. We focus on what truly moves the needle for caregivers and families not what looks impressive from the outside. Substance beats spectacle every time.
• Family-Grade Pride: We take pride in our work as if our own loved ones were the ones counting on it. We operate with care integrity and accountability.
• Play the Long Game: We build and operate for the future. We invest in strong fundamentals solve problems to their core make decisions that compound and think in decades not quarters. Sustainability beats shortcuts.
• Entrepreneurship Every Day: We are owners. We embrace ambiguity by working from first principles and focus on speed to learnings through small bets tight loops quick iteration and consistent calibration.
• Win Together: We always look for win-wins. We put mission above ego collaborate intensely and find common ground. We celebrate each other and never let the joy of this journey get lost behind the pursuit of a destination.
   

Equal Opportunity Statement

Givers is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

What We Do

Givers enrolls supports and pays family caregivers through state programs. Family caregivers have lived in the shadows for decades. The care ecosystem is undergoing a massive structural shift that is breaking this shadow workforce. The population over 65 is doubling long term care costs are skyrocketing there will 9M direct care job openings by 2030 and the number of caregivers in the US has grown from 43M in 2015 to 63M in 2026. We believe solving this pressure point is not only right for family caregivers but is also a key piece of the puzzle to fixing the broken care ecosystem at large. When we empower and enlist family caregivers into the system we create a sustainable path forward for caregivers and fill the broadening care gap in the care ecosystem.

Why Work With Us

We are incredibly intentional about everything we do. We think of our team culture as a product itself–discovering from first principles what is best for our team company and the people we serve. We live our core values everyday: - Impact Over Flash: We chase outcomes not shiny objects. We focus on what truly moves the needle

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