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Metronome

Location:
United States, New York City ▼
San Francisco Bay Area

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

208000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Metronome is reimagining the core systems that will define the future of our platform. We’re looking for a senior engineering leader to tackle some of the most technically challenging and strategically important problems in our domain. You will be leading a team of highly tenured and exceptional engineers through a multi-quarter initiative that will transform our platform’s capabilities, accelerate innovation, and establish a durable technical advantage for Metronome. As the leader of this group, you’ll own both short-term delivery milestones and the long-term vision for how this platform evolves to meet customer and business needs.

Job Responsibility:

Set organizational and technical direction: Shape the roadmap and vision for your team in collaboration with infrastructure, data, and product leadership
Advocate for the right long-term system investments: Lead cross-cutting initiatives that enable scale, improve margins, and raise the bar for reliability and testing standards
Drive complex cross-team execution: Bring clarity to sequencing, align priorities across stakeholders, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery—making deliberate tradeoffs to balance near-term customer value with long-term platform foundations
Manage and grow leaders: Lead senior engineers and emerging managers. Provide career development, performance feedback, and coaching to build the next generation of technical and organizational leaders
Recruit and retain top talent: Scale the team by hiring exceptional engineers and managers. Foster a high-trust, high-performance culture that values innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence

Requirements:

6+ years of engineering management experience: Including managing managers or senior/staff ICs and scaling teams through periods of growth and complexity
8+ years of technical experience: You’ve built and operated distributed systems or platforms at scale and understand platform architecture and reliability deeply
Proven leadership skills: You’ve led teams through ambiguity, made long-term technical bets, and know how to align execution with business goals
Strong organizational and communication skills: You navigate complex stakeholder needs, drive clarity across teams and functions, and communicate tradeoffs to executives
Commitment to inclusivity: You build diverse, inclusive teams and lead with empathy, candor, and authenticity

What we offer:

Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, including a One Medical membership
Paid parental leave
FSA (Flexible spending account)
Retirement planning - Traditional and ROTH 401(k)
Flexible time off
Employee assistance program (mental health benefits)
Culture where personal growth is highly valued
market-benched equity
incentive pay
comprehensive health benefits

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 10, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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