Sr. Manager of Engineering

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Join Us at Pura—Reimagining Fragrance for the Future. At Pura, we blend cutting-edge smart home technology with premium, clean scents to create personalized experiences in every home. We’re redefining fragrance as a design element and offer a Scent Design approach that helps users craft their own “scents capes.”

We’re a high-growth company focused on transforming how people experience scent and building a culture of innovation, collaboration, and sustainability.

We’re hiring a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead Pura’s e-commerce technologies—including our subscriptions service and Shopify ecosystem—while staying hands-on in the code where it matters. You’ll manage and grow a high-performing team, drive architecture and delivery across backend-heavy systems, and collaborate closely with Product, Ops, and Growth. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer with a strong backend focus, fluent in Go, and 3–5 years of management or tech lead experience.

Our stack: AWS, Terraform, Go, Type Script.

You will help us inspire a belief in the power of fragrance to craft and elevate memorable moments for our Owners. This is your chance to make an impact in a high-growth company redefining how people experience scent.

• Lead & develop the team: hire, mentor, set goals, run effective 1:1s, and foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and pace.
• Own e-commerce platforms end-to-end: subscriptions logic, Shopify apps/integrations (Admin/Storefront APIs, webhooks), catalog & pricing, checkout flows, fulfillment signals, and post-purchase experiences.
• Stay hands-on (selectively): design and implement critical backend services in Go; contribute to Type Script code paths as needed.
• Architect for scale & reliability: service boundaries, data models, API contracts, caching, idempotency, rate limiting, and resiliency patterns.
• Operate what you build: SLOs, on-call rotations, incident response, RCAs, observability (logs/metrics/traces), performance tuning.
• Ship safely & often: CI/CD, testing strategy, feature flags, canary/rollback; infra as code with Terraform on AWS.
• Partner across the business: align roadmaps with Product and stakeholders; convert business goals into clear technical plans and milestones.
• Lean into AI: evaluate and responsibly adopt AI-powered developer and operations tools, and stay curious about emerging tech that boosts quality and velocity.

• 3–5 years leading engineers as an engineering manager or tech lead, plus prior senior-level IC experience.
• Expert-level Go with a backend focus; strong fundamentals in distributed systems, APIs, and data modeling.
• Proficiency in Type Script and modern frontend frameworks (for collaboration).
• Proven experience with Shopify (apps, APIs, webhooks) and subscription/e-commerce systems.
• Deep familiarity with AWS (design/operations) and Terraform (IaC).
• Track record of delivering durable systems: testing, observability, performance, and secure-by-default practices.
• Comfortable using AI tools in daily engineering work and curious about evaluating new tools and workflows.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical partners; clear decision-making and pragmatic tradeoffs.

AWS, Terraform, Go, Type Script (plus Shopify platform & APIs, Git Hub-based CI/CD, modern observability tooling).

Pura provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

* All candidates are subject to a background check.