Engineering Manager, Backend

**Our Mission**:
Prose is truly custom hair and skin care made-to-order—just for you. Our line of custom products are made by an in-house, Paris-based R&D team of gifted chemists who combine natural ingredients in innovative ways alongside dermatologists, giving consumers clean skin care, hair care and impeccable results.

At the heart of Prose’s success is Singular, its proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform, which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Marrying a technology-driven approach with an apothecary-style concept, all Prose hair and skin care products are personalized to your one-of-a-kind hair, skin, goals and environment.

We’re a company that wants to change beauty practices, so we’re changing the way beauty companies practice. As a certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation and Climate Neutral, we’re proving that good business is always sustainable. With Prose, there’s nothing sacrificed to bring you great products—not trees, materials, wages, or performance.

Prose & Singular in Numbers

- Founded in 2017, with hubs in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles
- 10M+ consultations completed
- 2M customers and 350K active subscribers
- 21M custom products made, with 1M+ unique formulas
- 350+ team members across disciplines
- $600M+ in lifetime sales, with $165M+ revenue in 2024
- Profitable since 2024

**Position Summary**:
Prose is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and grow our engineering teams while contributing directly to our technical initiatives. You’ll be part of our Tech organization that designs, builds, and delivers both platform capabilities and product features that power Prose’s personalized beauty experience.

This is a dual role that blends technical execution with people leadership. You’ll be responsible for maintaining delivery excellence, reducing technical debt, and fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and accountability.

As a key member of the Tech leadership team, you will act as the technical point of contact in interactions with Product and Design, ensuring alignment between technical vision and user experience goals. You’ll also play a cross-functional coordination role, collaborating closely with other teams and Engineering Managers to ensure consistency, scalability, and shared best practices across the organization.

You will ensure the stability, scalability, and quality of our systems — while coaching and mentoring engineers to help them thrive.

If you’re passionate about human-centered leadership, technical excellence, and helping teams deliver with confidence and purpose, we’d love to hear from you.

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**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Management and Leadership**- Manage and mentor a group of engineers across one squad (backend and/or frontend), fostering their growth and aligning the team's efforts with business objectives.
- Collaborate with Product on team priorities, workload distribution, balance between tech and product initiatives and contribute to a clear communication across teams.
- Advocate for best practices across the organization, influencing cross-functional collaboration.

- **Technical Contribution**- Write, review, and ship production code alongside your team.
- Lead by example with engineering best practices in testing, documentation, and code quality.
- Participate in architecture discussions and system design decisions.
- Unblock your team with hands-on support and pragmatic solutions.
- Identify and address areas of technical debt, implementing improvements to enhance system performance and maintainability

- **Process & Collaboration**- Improve engineering workflows and team efficiency across squads.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of high-quality features.
- Bring visibility to ongoing work, risks, and dependencies.
- Support the rollout and evolution of engineering processes and rituals.

- **Culture & Impact**- Build and maintain an inclusive, psychologically safe environment where engineers can thrive.
- Help define and uphold the values of our engineering organization at Prose.
- Advocate for engineering needs within the broader organization.
- Provide technical documentation and training to team members to promote knowledge sharing

- Have previously managed Engineers and understand the challenges and how to achieve maximum productivity.
- Comfortable in being responsible for People, Technical Quality and Delivery.
- Pragmatic mindset, knowing when to invest in perfection, and when to build a PoC
- Presentation and communication skills, capable of presenting technical ideas in a way that suits the audience
- Mentoring and coaching experience
- Previous backend experience with Python, along with common libraries such as Django, Rest Framework, FastAPI
- Understanding of front-end web technologies
- A knack for writing clean, readable, and maintainable code
- Prior experience in B2C, e-commerce, manufacturing is a plus
- Fluency in English