Software Engineering Manager, Paperless Post
$170-205k
+ Equity
Online events & invitations platform
Open for applications
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$170-205k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of leadership: Proven experience managing and mentoring engineers, creating an inclusive and high-performing environment
- Full-stack understanding: Strong experience with backend development (statically typed languages such as golang, distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure) as well as experience with frontend technologies (React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks)
- Product partnership skills: The ability to collaborate deeply with product managers, contribute to roadmap planning, and ensure alignment between technical feasibility and product/business goals
- Ownership mindset: A commitment to taking responsibility for team output, holding people accountable, improving processes, and driving measurable impact
- Technical depth: While you won’t code, you can effectively participate in technical discussions, ask the right questions, and challenge assumptions to ensure thoughtful decision-making
- Strong communication: Clear, empathetic, and collaborative communication skills to work effectively across engineering, product, and design
What the job involves
- Paperless Post is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and inspire a cross-functional engineering team as we build our best-in-class discovery and events management platform, connecting a global community of over 175 million hosts and receivers
- As a key leader, you will oversee and develop a talented group of backend, frontend, full-stack and quality assurance engineers, ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable solutions
- You’ll partner closely with product managers to define goals, shape the roadmap, and continuously improve the way we work
- While you won’t write code, you’ll play an active role in technical discussions, ensuring alignment between product and engineering while fostering an environment of collaboration, creativity, and growth
- The Paperless Post Engineering team builds and maintains a product millions of people interact with each month
- We value creativity, technical depth, and a thoughtful approach to problem-solving
- As a primarily Go and React shop, we leverage modern cloud technologies to deliver fast, reliable APIs and rich user experiences
- Our managers play a crucial role in enabling engineers and technical leads to focus on execution while driving alignment with business objectives
- We foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, balancing immediate delivery with long-term technical sustainability
- Own team output and delivery: Work closely with the team to ensure timely and high-quality execution of product and technical goals, removing blockers, and improving internal processes to enhance productivity
- Be a subject matter expert: Immerse yourself in the domain, gaining deep knowledge of the business, product, and technical landscape to make informed decisions and drive alignment across the team
- Partner with product managers: Collaborate to define, prioritize, and deliver a roadmap that balances user needs, business outcomes, and technical sustainability
- You’ll work to ensure each engineer on your team has clear goals, alignment, and a shared vision for success
- Drive alignment and focus: Advocate for both product and technical priorities, helping to make trade-offs and balance competing needs to ensure optimal outcomes
- Ensure team success: Manage the day-to-day operations of the team, monitor sprint health, and resolve cross-functional dependencies to keep projects moving forward
- Foster collaboration: Enable your engineers and technical leads to thrive by creating a supportive environment where they can focus on execution, mentorship, and growth
- Participate in technical discussions: Understand the architecture and ecosystem, ensuring alignment between technical decisions and the broader goals of the team and organization
- Continuously improve processes: Work with your team to identify opportunities for operational improvements, optimizing workflows to enhance efficiency and delivery quality
- Develop your team: Provide coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities through regular one-on-ones and performance reviews
Our take
Sending invitations to events can be tedious and time-consuming, and outsourcing design can be expensive too. Paperless Post solves this problem with its technology-led, design-first approach.
Paperless Post first launched in 2009, and since then it has become a clear market leader in a field cluttered with fairly simple design and printing tools. Part of its success stems from its early adoption of mobile phones as a platform - while initially optimized for desktop use the company worked hard to develop its platform for mobile users. This has allowed Paperless Post to consolidate its growth in spite of market changes over the years.
Paperless Post is well-positioned to see considerable growth. It will need to continue to develop its partnerships and technology in order to fend off new competitors, however. Its unique designs and partnerships with brands such as Caroline Herrera go some way to achieving this, and its understanding of communication trends: switching to text message notifications rather than email as younger people abandon email as a way to communicate - indicate that the company is still ahead of the curve.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$10m
SERIES E
Apr 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.4m
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
James Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
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