Engineering Manager

About The Role

Nourish is seeking a hands‑on Engineering Manager to drive execution of complex initiatives, and contribute directly to our codebase and technical direction. You’ll work closely with product, design, analytics, and cross‑functional partners to deliver high‑impact features with strong ownership and quality.

• Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers while maintaining a technical role in architecture and implementation.
• Execute and deliver on the objectives you help set.
• Partner with product and design to define objectives, scoping, and delivery timelines.
• Drive thoughtful decision‑making around system design, code quality, observability, and scalability.

• Foster a high‑performing engineering pod with strong technical ownership.
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback cycles and career development.
• Help scale the team through recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Contribute directly to architectural decisions and core system design.
• Participate in coding, code reviews, on‑call, and hands‑on implementation across the stack.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, quality, and automation.
• Partner with product and design to define requirements, plan sprints, and execute deliverables.
• Collaborate across functions to solve meaningful, data‑driven problems in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ensure reliable releases and maintainability of core systems.

• Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full‑stack technologies.
• Have 2+ years of experience leading and developing engineering teams in a scaling environment.
• Are highly proficient with React, Typescript, Node.js, Postgre
  
  SQL, or similar modern stacks.
• Are excited to stay hands‑on with code and technical execution.
• Can balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clarity in ambiguous contexts.
• Are passionate about building impactful products in an early‑stage, mission‑driven company.
• Nice to Have’s
  • AI Use – Comfort with AI workflows and building AI products
  • Startup or Scale Up experience – You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
  • Interviewing familiarity – We’re quickly growing our Engineering function and expect our Engineers to help us do so!
  • Energized by our mission – Our mission defines everything we do, we need engineers hungry to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.