Shipt · 17 hours ago
Senior Engineering Manager – Fullstack Mobile
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$188K/yr - $377K/yr
7+ years expShipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. The Senior Engineering Manager – Fullstack Mobile role is a senior leadership position responsible for guiding a team of engineers across mobile frontend and backend disciplines, driving technical strategy, and ensuring engineering excellence.
DeliveryE-CommerceGrocerySame Day Delivery
Responsibilities
Lead and influence architectural direction across frontend (React Native) and backend (Golang microservices, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform, backend-for-frontend, vendor integrations) domains
Partner with Engineering, Product, UX, Data Science, and Operations leaders to define multi-quarter modernization plans, system migrations, quality bars, and domain boundaries
Ensure teams consistently adopt modern practices (architectural patterns, observability, performance optimization, AI-assisted development)
Oversee the technical strategy for your areas of responsibility, ensuring alignment with Shipt- or department-wide architectural principles and long-term company goals
Drive cross-team technical initiatives that improve stability, reliability, and operational excellence
Own delivery for frontend experiences and backend capabilities, ensuring predictable execution against roadmaps, OKRs, and quarterly commitments
Lead technical planning cycles — capacity planning, dependency mapping, long-range planning, and risk mitigation
Drive resolution for complex cross-functional blockers, escalating when necessary
Establish processes that improve productivity, throughput, rollout safety, code quality, and release cadence
Ensure high operational readiness across all owned services — SLOs, observability instrumentation, dashboards, runbooks, on-call rotations, and alert tuning
Manage 10+ engineers across disciplines and levels
Guide career development through structured mentorship, progression frameworks, and personalized growth plans to meet and exceed engineering expectations
Establish high talent density through strong hiring, rigorous performance management, and mentorship programs
Scale and size teams sustainably, anticipating skill gaps, capacity needs, and future organizational structures
Build and reinforce a culture of high accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement toward the demonstration of Shipt Values
Serve as the primary engineering partner to Product, UX, Data Science, and Operations for your areas of responsibility
Translate product strategy, internal customer needs, and business outcomes into technical direction and execution plans
Influence prioritization and sequencing decisions through strong technical judgment and data-driven reasoning
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across Gig Ops, Marketplace, Partner Engineering, Infrastructure, Fraud, Compliance, and Data Science
Communicate progress, risks, blockers, trade-offs, and decisions — early, clearly, and often — to leaders and partners
Champion AI-assisted engineering practices — expanding use of Copilot, Gemini, automated test agents, refactoring agents, and intelligent developer workflows
Improve engineering fundamentals across code quality, testing maturity, observability, scalability, and architectural hygiene
Establish and continuously improve product team working agreements drawing from expertise and experience with multiple agile software development methodologies
Lead agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives)
Lead post-incident reviews and systemic corrective action initiatives across multiple teams
Establish and drive engineering metrics (DORA, quality KPIs, incident metrics, velocity, cycle times)
Promote a culture that values learning, experimentation, craftsmanship, and psychological safety
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of professional engineering experience, preferably building customer-facing or critical realtime systems
2+ years of formal engineering people leadership, including managing multiple engineers or teams
Proven experience designing and delivering distributed, high-availability, scalable systems
Ability to guide engineers across multiple disciplines: Frontend (React Native), Backend (Golang, REST APIs, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, scaling and resiliency patterns)
Understanding of large-scale system design, domain-driven architecture, event modeling, and service contracts
Experience guiding modernization efforts — service decomposition, platform / vendor migrations, performance rewrites, observability upgrades
Strong fluency in SLOs/SLIs, incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability frameworks
Experience using engineering metrics to guide team-level continuous improvement
Understanding of last-mile delivery fulfillment and gig work with independent contractors
Ability to align engineering roadmaps with business OKRs, customer outcomes, and long-term strategy
Proven ability to scale engineering teams, including capacity planning, performance management, and leveling strategies
Experience in headcount planning, budgeting inputs, and strategic forecasting
Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
Strategic Thinker: Operates at multi-quarter horizons with strong architectural and organizational awareness
Talent Multiplier: Develops senior engineers into future leaders; builds durable, high-performing teams
Influential Communicator: Navigates ambiguity and influences across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
Operationally Excellent: Instills accountability, high quality craftsmanship, and strong on-call readiness
Culture Builder: Models a high degree of professionalism and professional maturity, and champions Shipt Values of Drive, Rally, Positivity, Authenticity, and Caring
AI-Forward Leader: Encourages responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices appropriate to engineering level and helps position Shipt for AI-native development
Courageous & Principled: Makes difficult decisions when needed, prioritizes ruthlessly, and knows how to pragmatically decide when to ship, when to 'do it right,' and when to pay down tech debt
Agile Software Development, Go Programming Language, React Native, Technical Leadership
Benefits
Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.
Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.
Company
Shipt
Shipt is a grocery delivery service that lets members order groceries and alcohol from their local store for delivery right to their door. It is a sub-organization of Target.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$65.2MKey Investors
Greycroft
2017-12-13Acquired
2017-06-05Series B· $40M
2016-07-27Series A· $20M
Leadership Team
Smrutha Ipparthi
Chief Technology & Product Officer
Recent News
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