Software Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a team of 4-8 engineers on a product engineering team. You will write and ship features, own end-to-end delivery, and grow engineers through regular feedback and career conversations.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 4-8 engineers on one of our product engineering teams.
• Write and ship features alongside your team.
• Own delivery end to end including planning, prioritization, scope tradeoffs, on-time shipping, and performance management.
• Run design reviews, code review standards, on-call, standup and incident response.
• Grow engineers through regular 1:1s, real feedback, career conversations, and stretch work.
• Perform performance management when needed.
• Lead hiring for your team and help raise the bar across the org.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 2+ years managing engineers directly with a track record of developing them
• Strong technical foundation
• Shipped real pieces of a production roadmap
• Can run a design review, debug a production incident, and make architecture tradeoffs
• Backend-leaning full stack on Ruby (Grape) with React/Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend
• Comfortable with third-party APIs (OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, idempotency), observability, on-call, incident management, AWS, and Terraform
• Running AI coding agents autonomously, including overnight, to ship
• Daily Claude Code use
• Strong communicator and self-starter
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
• Empathy for our end users, including low-to-moderate-income renters

Benefits

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
• 3 sick days
• All US federal holidays (11 in total)
• Company-issued laptop/MacBook
• Company-sponsored training & development
• Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

About the company

Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers. The company is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting and is backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, and Gilgamesh Ventures.