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Software Engineering Manager

Boom · Austin Texas · On-site

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About Boom

Organic, scientifically-formulated products uniquely crafted to care, simplify and celebrate every stage of your beauty journey. Questions? Connect with us at (929) 266-2100.

About the role

Lead a team of 4-8 engineers on one of our product engineering teams. Stay deep in the code. You'll write and ship features alongside your team, not just review their PRs

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers directly with a track record of developing them
  • Strong technical foundation. You've shipped real pieces of a production roadmap and 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
  • You're already running AI coding agents autonomously, including overnight, to ship.Daily Claude Code use is table stakes. We expect you to lead by example and push your team to do the same
  • Strong communicator and self-starter who can represent engineering to non-technical stakeholders and is comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
  • Empathy for our end users, including low-to-moderate-income renters, and a desire to build products that make a difference
More about this role

Boom is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding. Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and a number of integrations with the largest property management systems (PMS). Boom serves renters through the Boom App and property managers via the Boom Platform. Now serving thousands of renters, Boom is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting (ex-BCG, Rubicon). It's backed by investors such as Starting Line , Clocktower Ventures , Gilgamesh Ventures (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey and Zach Perret (Co-founders of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings . Boom has been profiled by Inman , Business Insider , HousingWire , and more.

We're expanding our engineering team to meet the growing demands of our B2B partners and B2C users. With a robust product roadmap and new opportunities on the horizon, we're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our product engineering teams, scale how we deliver, and grow the engineers on the team. The specific team...

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