Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Metropolis
$216.5-264.5k
4 days a week in office
Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
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Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$216.5-264.5k
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To disrupt traditional city infrastructure to empower the future of urban mobility.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of Management experience and 10+ years software development experience building customer-centric applications and products
- Experience scaling and supporting 10+ person teams and building a strong bench of senior individual contributors
- Experience in successfully executing and landing initiatives with strategic business impact
- Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration while building customer solutions in B2C and B2B settings
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and software products in high-volume consumer-facing applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner
Desirable
- Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth environments
- Comfort operating in an environment with high levels of ambiguity
- Experience with influencing open-source community or industry groups
- Experience with leveraging AI technology to streamline engineering activities
What the job involves
- Metropolis is seeking a Senior Manager to lead one of our Customer Experience application development teams through our next step function growth phase
- As a product-oriented engineering leader with a passion for technology and customer satisfaction, you will drive the future of our products by contributing to a vision and strategy that enables top-notch customer experiences
- You will inspire a distributed team, shape a strong engineering culture, and work closely with leads across Product Management, Data Science, and User Research to build an end-to-end mobility platform that impacts the everyday experience of millions of people
- Execute on a multi-year vision and strategy for developing customer-facing product offerings in close partnership with Product Management
- Establish the processes needed to achieve operational excellence in system reliability while enabling rapid experimentation and data-informed decisions
- Coach your engineering team to bring out their best performance and professional growth
- Drive the hiring of top talent and set the cultural standard within Metropolis Engineering
- Foster a collaborative environment where the best product and technical ideas are nurtured and brought to life
- Manage the delivery of high-impact workflow, dashboard, and data visualization applications
- Contribute to improving the customer-oriented mindset competency across the entire Metropolis organization
Our take
Driven by computer vision and AI technology, Metropolis offers a seamless parking and checkout experience by turning cars into wallets. This eliminates the need for physical tickets and pay machines, allowing property owners to maximise the financial performance of their parking assets and offer a modern service to customers.
Metropolis aims to revolutionise parking by integrating future mobility solutions, such as autonomous vehicle deployment, charging stations, and eVTOL infrastructure. Its approach includes dynamic pricing to optimise revenue during demand surges.
The company has expanded rapidly following several fundraising rounds and some lucrative partnerships. Its acquisition of SP Plus Corporation helped to position Metropolis as a leader in AI infrastructure for parking and mobility, and its now grown to be worth $5 billion.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$500m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Equity options - We offer ownership opportunities through stock options
- Wellness benefits - A wellness program designed to support a variety of needs
- Health insurance - We subsidise high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- We subsidize high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- 401(k) match - Plan for your future with a 4% company match
- Parental leave - Receive support prior to, during leave, and as you transition back to work
- Time off - Unlimited PTO for salaried employees, and a generous PTO package for our hourly employees
- Paid holidays - We observe major holidays with company-wide closures, and double hourly rates for those who work
- Hybrid environment - Magic happens face to face, but we support a flexible working model
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Alexander Israel
(CEO & Co-Founder)Former Vice President & General Manager at INRIX. Co-founder and former COO at ParkMe. BA in Business & Economics at University of Puget Sound.
Travis Kell
(CSO & Co-Founder)Former Senior Vice President at Winton Group. Previously Director of Hedge Fund Solutions at BlackRock. BA in Business at University of Puget Sound.
Courtney Fukuda
(Chief Integration Officer & Co-Founder)Formerly hedge fund solutions group at BlackRock. Managed senior relationships with sovereign wealth fund, central banks and other major institutional investors. BA in Economics at Yale University.
Peter Fisher
(CCO & Co-Founder)Formerly growth equity Investor at Transamerica Investment Management, BA in Political Science at Boston College.
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