Senior Engineering Manager and Tech Lead (Marketplace Team)

About Us

Propel builds technology that strengthens the social safety net in America. We envision a future where every American has the tools and resources they need to thrive.

Managing SNAP benefits, picking a D-SNP plan, or protecting against EBT theft should feel as seamless as Apple Pay or Netflix.

Governments struggle to build modern, scalable user experiences. We don’t.

Over 5.5 million Americans trust Propel today. We’ve grown revenue 35% YoY and are reinventing entire benefit categories, including Medicare, around the real needs of low-income Americans. We’re building a high-growth, high-ceiling, sustainable for-profit company where impact drives revenue.

About the Role

We’re in search of a strong player-coach Senior Engineering Manager and Tech Lead for our Marketplace team. We launched the Propel Marketplace to connect our ~5M monthly active users to products, services, and exclusive offers from leading brands across grocery and retail, healthcare, telecoms, financial services, and auto via the Propel app.

We’re looking for someone who is empathetic, a skilled facilitator, and enjoys team building! We want someone who is excited about championing our efforts around hiring, building, and developing a diverse engineering team as our product continues to scale. This role will be a hybrid Engineering Manager/Individual Contributor role—you’ll act as the team’s technical lead (designing the system) as well as managing 3-5 teammates across multiple sub-teams and helping them align and build out a vision.

What You’ll Do:

• Set technical vision for the marketplace team and build a system that serves helpful offers to our users efficiently and effectively
• Manage and coach 3-5 reports across multiple sub-teams and help them advance in their careers
• Develop team-level processes to foster consistency and collaboration in our remote-first company culture
• Help sustain efficient cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, design, and data and be an advocate for change in the system when necessary
• Ensure smooth onboarding for new engineers and help a growing team iterate on the process

What You Have:

• 10+ years of experience designing and developing web or mobile applications, especially in ad tech or consumer products
• 2+ years of experience managing engineers of various levels in a start-up, remote-first environment
• Strong AI skills and the ability to think systematically about when and where to use AI most effectively
• A growth mindset, curiosity, and the desire to understand how our Marketplace business operates
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Passion for making a difference in the lives of our users
• Experience with or knowledge of government services, particularly safety net services like SNAP, WIC, TANF, SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, Section 8, is a plus