Senior Engineering Manager, Homebase
Client Platform
$230-270k
Canada range:$205K – $242K (CAD)
Employee scheduling software for small businesses
Open for applications
Employee scheduling software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$230-270k
Canada range:$205K – $242K (CAD)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make local business teams unstoppable.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with depth in frontend and/or mobile development
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior engineers and/or managers
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling teams that support multiple product teams
- Strong architectural judgment across client technologies such as web frontend frameworks, iOS, and Android
- Demonstrated ability to improve developer productivity through platform investments, automation, and AI tooling
- Track record of balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform leverage
- Clear, direct communicator who combines empathy with decisiveness
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Client Platform organization, which includes both our Frontend Platform and Mobile Platform teams
- These teams are responsible for the shared foundations that power Homebase’s web, iOS, and Android experiences
- They build the architecture, tooling, frameworks, and developer experience that enable product teams to ship quickly and safely across every customer-facing surface
- This role is central to increasing engineering velocity, improving quality and consistency, and enabling our evolution toward AI-powered, agentic product experiences
- You will lead managers and senior ICs across two platform teams, balancing near-term delivery with long-term leverage and architectural clarity
- You will operate as a systems thinker who connects frontend, mobile, platform strategy, and AI enablement into a cohesive vision that accelerates the entire product organization
- Lead and grow two platform teams
- Manage the Frontend Platform and Mobile Platform teams
- Set a high bar for technical excellence, accountability, and sustainable velocity
- Develop strong leaders and create clear ownership boundaries across web and mobile platform domains
- Define and evolve client platform strategy
- Establish a cohesive architecture vision across web, iOS, and Android
- Drive improvements in shared frameworks, design systems, CI/CD, testing strategy, release processes, observability, and performance foundations
- Increase reuse and consistency across surfaces while enabling product teams to move independently
- Improve developer experience and velocity
- Invest in tooling, automation, and internal platforms that reduce friction and cognitive load for product engineers
- Measure and improve key signals such as cycle time, defect rates, release stability, and developer satisfaction
- Standardize best practices across client engineering
- Enable AI-first development
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development workflows across frontend and mobile engineering, including code generation, testing, debugging, and release validation
- Partner with AI and Data teams to ensure our client foundations support AI-powered and agentic product capabilities
- Set measurable expectations around AI-enabled productivity gains
- Stay close to the details
- Review designs and architectural proposals
- Unblock complex cross-team technical challenges
- Ensure platform investments translate into tangible gains for product teams
- Strengthen in-person collaboration
- Build strong in-office working rhythms that reinforce trust, alignment, and fast decision-making across hubs
Our take
Homebase provide employees and businesses with time tracking applications, with a range of other HR functionality built in. Homebase automates the process of managing employee scheduling, and also helps companies improve internal communications.
The company contributes to the reduction of paperwork in an office by turning an array of devices into time clocks that track hours and overtime, while also providing payroll support. This makes it easier for companies to remain in sync, running a more efficient operation as a result.
Given that Homebase's customer base of small businesses is not able to pay a lot for its product, scale is the key driver in the company's future success. With over 100,000 customers already, its significant venture capital backing will ensure that the company will be able to grow (notably it's investing in Canadian talent) to provide its services on a profitable scale.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$60m
SERIES D
Nov 2021
$30m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $189m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off options
- Offsites, customer days & social events
- Work from Anywhere Month
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching program
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Waldmann
(Founder & CEO)BA Political Science at Stanford. Associate at Boston Consulting Group, then KKR Capstone, before founding Homebase in 2014.
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