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Engineering Manager, Marketplace

Paraform· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager for the Marketplace team at Paraform, leading a pod of engineers to optimize supply-demand matching, incentives, and experimentation to drive revenue; role combines people management with hands-on system design and code collaboration in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

  • The team. Hire, coach, and level a pod of senior-leaning engineers. We run small autonomous teams with high judgment expectations, and we promote on judgment, not lines of code.
  • Marketplace health. Liquidity is the core problem: making sure every open role gets real recruiter attention, and every good recruiter has roles worth working. You'll own the allocation, matching, and distribution systems that balance the two sides.
  • Incentives and pricing. Payments, bonuses, and pricing mechanics that shape recruiter behavior. This is where economics meets engineering, and where careless changes cost real money.
  • Experimentation. Marketplace changes get validated, not vibes-checked. You'll build the team's muscle for A/B testing, guardrail metrics, and knowing when an experiment result is real.
  • Roadmap and delivery. Turn ambiguous business goals into a quarterly plan the team believes in, then ship it.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years managing engineers (Manager) or 5+ years including managing multiple teams or managers (Director), on top of a strong IC background
  • You've worked on a marketplace, payments, pricing, or another domain where the system's incentives matter as much as its code
  • Data-fluent: you can pull your own SQL, sanity-check an experiment readout, and push back on a bad metric
  • AI fluency is a floor here, not a differentiator. You use AI tools in your own work and you know how to raise a team's leverage with them
  • You write things down. Operating norms, decision docs, postmortems. Clarity in writing is how small teams stay fast as they grow
  • Comfortable being hands-on in a fast-moving codebase

Skills

Required:People managementSystem designSQLA/B testing and metrics
Nice to have:AI tooling
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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