Pricing Engineering Manager

Job title: Pricing Engineering Manager

About the Role

Pricing Engineering Manager at SpotHero will lead a full-stack engineering squad focused on pricing strategy across locations, combining hands-on technical leadership with people management. You’ll partner with Product, Data, and Ops to enable the best price across SpotHero locations, drive delivery at scale, and ensure quality and reliability.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering squad; foster trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Own team execution: roadmap planning, goal setting, and shipping well-tested, usable products.

• Ensure engineering best practices: quality, observability, testing, security, and performance.

• Build partnerships across Product, Data, and Ops to align priorities and drive business outcomes.

• Develop team members through mentorship, coaching, and thoughtful career conversations.

• Contribute to org-wide engineering practices: on-call readiness, DORA metrics, onboarding, and more.

• What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on distributed systems in Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• 3+ years of experience managing engineers, ideally on small, fast-moving squads.

• Clear communication, a bias toward action, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

• A track record of building resilient systems and leading teams through scaling challenges.

• Comfortable working in our stack or learning quickly: Java/Python/Go, React, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes.

• Nice to Have

• Experience with backend development.

• Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation in Illinois: base salary between $152,000 - $190,000 USD plus discretionary bonus and leading total rewards package.

• Compensation in Ontario: CA$148,800 - CA$186,000 CAD plus discretionary bonus and leading total rewards package.

• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision premiums covered; company-sponsored life insurance; STD/AD&D; 401(k) with match; flexible PTO; learning budget; annual parking stipend; and a supportive, inclusive culture.

• SpotHero is an equal opportunity employer and offers accommodations in the hiring process.