Associate Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Own day-to-day delivery, including project planning, task breakdown, and on-time releases.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and manage change to enable predictable delivery, including estimates, timelines, and progress reporting.
• Partner with the project management team and the client to translate requirements into clear technical work items and acceptance criteria.
• Plan team capacity, identify resourcing needs, delegate effectively, and unblock the team.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, including scope creep, dependencies, technical debt, and performance bottlenecks.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards, including Git workflows, PR practices, branching strategy, release checklists, documentation, and post-mortems.
• Track and improve delivery and quality metrics, including PR throughput, self-testing, defect rates, and bug-fix ratios.
• Coordinate with QA to improve test coverage, release stability, and incident follow-ups.
• Provide technical leadership across storefront UI (HTML/CSS/JS) and Shopify theme (Liquid) integrations.
• Optimize performance, including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, image strategy, and critical CSS.
• Coach and support developers through 1:1s, feedback, growth plans, onboarding, and hiring support as needed.
• Demonstrate the ability to recruit, onboard, and manage technical teams, including performance management.
• Maintain team discipline by monitoring progress updates, working hours, and project tracking tools.

Required Skills:

• 5 - 11 years of experience leading an 8+ member engineering team, including senior developers and tech leads, with delivery responsibility.
• Delivery fundamentals, including estimation, sprint planning, dependency tracking, and stakeholder updates.
• Clear stakeholder communication, including expectation setting and progress reporting.
• Strong engineering practices: Git workflows, code reviews, and high-quality PR hygiene.
• Strong eCommerce engineering experience with at least one platform (Shopify, Adobe Commerce, Big Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or similar).
• Strong front-end skills: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, responsive UI development, and debugging.
• Performance optimization experience, including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, image strategy, and critical CSS.
• Good understanding of design tools such as Figma or XD, and the ability to convert designs into clear, actionable technical tasks.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to deliver Shopify projects and work with Liquid (themes, sections, metafields).
• Shopify app and integration experience, including Admin and Storefront APIs, webhooks, and third-party app ecosystems.
• Headless experience (Hydrogen and Remix) and familiarity with React.
• Release management exposure, including security and stability best practices.
• Experience working in a services environment with multiple clients and shifting priorities.
• Proven growth journey from lead to manager role in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of eCommerce ecosystem tools such as WMS, OMS, ERP, logistics partner integrations, vendor management systems, and CRM.
• Familiarity with analytics and tag tooling, including GA4 and GTM.

Soft Skills:

• Ownership mindset, strong prioritization, and attention to detail.
• Clear communication that sets expectations and explains trade-offs, paired with exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative working style across Engineering, PM, QA, Design, and Client Success.
• Coaching-oriented leadership style with consistent feedback.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward unblocking others.