Engineering Manager, Growth Activation

Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Growth Activation. Reporting to our Director of Engineering youll own the team responsible for helping every new patient achieve their long-term health goals getting them matched with the right clinician excited about their care journey and engaged through habit formation retention and reactivation.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys developing engineers shaping products and remaining close to architecture and implementation. Youll work closely with clinical finance product design and data to navigate the multi-constraint optimization behind our clinician matching understand patient journeys and build the experiences that drive outcomes pairing deep product thinking with rapid data-driven experimentation to identify high-leverage opportunities ship quickly learn from results and scale what works.

This is a full-time role. We strongly prefer candidates based in New York City or San Francisco with exceptions for truly exceptional candidates. Check out Engineering at Nourish to learn more about our team and what weve already built.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build lead and develop a high-performing team of 45 engineers with strong technical ownership.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback career development calibration and performance management.
• Scale the team through recruiting interviewing hiring and onboarding.
• Stay hands-on through architecture pair programming coding code reviews and on-call.
• Partner with product and design to write requirements shape roadmaps scope work plan sprints and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Drive thoughtful decisions around system design code quality observability reliability and scalability.
• Establish effective team rituals including sprint planning OKR planning and reporting quarterly planning and retrospectives.
• Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.
• Build a high-velocity experimentation culture with short iteration cycles and clear measures of impact.
• Improve patientprovider matching across patient goals and preferences clinician supply insurance constraints outcomes and business performance.
• Move activation and retention metrics through rigorous analysis and iterative product improvements.
• Own lifecycle experiences spanning first appointment notifications engagement habit formation retention and reactivation.
• Partner closely with Acquisition Billing Provider Supply product design and analytics to deliver a seamless end-to-end patient journey.

• Have 6 years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies and 2 years of hands-on engineering management experience.
• Have hired engineers and managed performance promotions and career development.
• Remain technical enough to pair program with your team and contribute directly when needed.
• Bring exceptional product judgment: you can write a PRD critique or mock a design size an opportunity and make progress without waiting on a PM.
• Are highly proficient with React TypeScript PostgreSQL or similar modern stacks.
• Have shipped and owned production systems in a fast-moving ambiguous environment.
• Balance people leadership with technical depth delivery focus and clear communication.
• Are energized by Nourishs mission to improve peoples health by making it easy to eat well.

• Consumer growth or marketplace experience
• Experimentation platforms
• Matching or recommendation systems
• Lifecycle engagement and retention
• Amplitude or similar analytics tools
• AI-powered products.