Engineering Manager
Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations, unified in one system for the first time.
We're growing 5x year over year with a small team in New York City; the people who join now will shape the product, the culture, and the company itself.
If you want your work on shelves everywhere — and outsized ownership while you build — we'd love to meet you.
THE ROLE
We've grown past 20 engineers, all reporting directly to our CTO — and we're still scaling. As our first Engineering Manager, you'll take direct ownership of a team of engineers and, alongside the CTO, define what engineering leadership looks like at Confido: how we grow careers, how we hire, and how we stay fast as the team doubles.
This is a player-coach role on a team that has never had a management layer. Our engineers are strong, opinionated, and allergic to process for its own sake — you'll earn their trust through technical credibility and by making their work visibly better, not through org charts. If you've walked into a flat, founder-led team before and built management that engineers actually wanted, this will feel familiar.
Location: New York, NY (Relocation supported)
YOU MAY BE WORKING ON
Directly managing a team of 6–10 engineers — 1:1s, coaching, career growth, and performance
Owning delivery for your team's roadmap: planning, prioritization, and unblocking without adding heavyweight process
Partnering with the CTO on org design, career ladders, and management practices as we scale from 20 to 50+ engineers
Staying close to the code — joining architecture and design reviews across our Rails, TypeScript/React, and Python systems
Building and running hiring loops that raise the bar, and closing great engineers in a competitive market
Identifying and growing future leads and managers from within the team
EXAMPLE PROBLEMS
Introducing structure to a team of 20+ engineers who have only ever reported to the CTO — without slowing them down
Designing a career ladder that senior ICs respect and that doesn't push everyone toward management
Keeping delivery predictable while the team, the product surface area, and the customer base all double
Turning skeptics into advocates: proving that good management is a force multiplier, not overhead
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Required
3+ years managing software engineers directly, on top of 5+ years as a hands-on engineer
You've scaled through hyper-growth at an early-stage startup — joining around Series A/B and riding it through Series C/D or beyond — and you know what breaks at each stage
Enough technical depth to go deep in design reviews and hold your own with strong senior engineers (you don't need to ship production code daily)
A track record of managing skeptics — you win people over through competence and outcomes, not title
Bias toward lightweight process: you add structure only where it demonstrably helps, and you kill it when it doesn't
Nice to Have
You've been a team's first manager, or introduced management to a previously flat org
Experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early employee (first ~15)
You've grown ICs into managers and built a leadership bench
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, or Python/ML systems
Experience in B2B SaaS, fintech, or data-heavy products
🌴 Perks + Benefits
Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build
Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums
Top-tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian
Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family-forming support
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
401(k) through Vestwell
Paid relocation support — we’ll help you make the move to NYC
Fully equipped workspace from day one — laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 stipend to personalize your setup
Team perks — catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring products from the brands we work with
Confido 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.