Senior Engineering Manager (Scheduling) - Deputy

The Role

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead the engineering team responsible for Scheduling, one of the most heavily used parts of Deputy. Deputy powers hourly work for more than 1.5 million shift workers across 380,000 workplaces in over 100 countries. Businesses have used the platform to create more than 1 billion shifts. At the heart of this is Scheduling, where business demand, employee availability, labor costs, and compliance come together.

The role combines the complexity of a mature, business-critical product with the opportunity to improve its foundations and shape what comes next. The team is modernizing established workflows, improving performance for larger customers, and exploring where AI can make scheduling simpler and more effective.

This is a technical engineering leadership role. You will develop a strong understanding of the product and architecture to contribute to technical discussions, coach senior engineers, and help the team make pragmatic trade-offs. During your first few months, you will spend time in the codebase and may contribute targeted changes as part of learning the product. Over time, your greatest impact will come through the performance and growth of the team.

What You Will Do

Lead the Team

• Set clear expectations, give useful feedback, and coach engineers through their growth, performance, and career development.

• Build a team culture where people can challenge ideas, learn from mistakes, and hold a high bar for each other.

• Create clarity when priorities change, surface risks early, and help the team maintain a predictable delivery cadence.

• Hire thoughtfully as the team grows and reduce single points of failure through cross-skilling and deliberate resourcing decisions.

Shape the Technical Direction

• Develop a deep understanding of the Scheduling product and its architecture to contribute meaningfully to technical decisions.

• Work with senior engineers to set technical direction and make clear decisions about architecture, frameworks, and build-versus-buy trade-offs.

• Guide improvements to the performance, reliability, security, and maintainability of a multi-tenant product used by businesses around the world.

• Stay close to the engineering work through design reviews, architecture discussions, incident learning, and targeted proofs of concept.

Deliver Customer and Business Outcomes

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to turn strategy and customer problems into a focused roadmap with measurable outcomes.

• Balance near-term customer value with the technical investment needed to keep Scheduling fast, dependable, and ready for enterprise scale.

• Keep the team connected to Deputy’s goals and explain the context behind priorities and trade-offs.

Help Evolve How We Build with AI

• Use AI-assisted and agentic development tools on real work and form your own view of where they help and where they do not.

• Help the team develop effective working practices for machine-drafted code, including review, testing, observability, and documentation.

• Maintain the quality bar by ensuring that what ships is correct, secure, maintainable, and understood by the people who own it.

• When the team contributes to customer-facing AI, work with Product and Engineering on evaluation, guardrails, cost, latency, and graceful failure.