Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Experiences)

Tonal is a connected fitness company seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead its Experiences team. The role owns the member experience roadmap, technical quality, delivery, hiring, and development of a team of six engineers while partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Content.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of six engineers directly: set direction, run performance reviews, coach directly, and give hard feedback early rather than letting problems compound
• Own delivery of the member experience roadmap with Product, Design, Data Science and Content. Make sure the team ships predictably and that what ships is good
• Drive technical quality on the codebase: reliability, performance, test coverage, and release health. Decide where to invest in paying down debt versus shipping faster
• Partner with other teams so your team gets fast feedback on their work and spends less time on coordination
• Hire and grow the team. Define what good looks like at each level, run a fair and calibrated loop, and build a bench of engineers who can lead
• Stay close to the work. You should be able to read a design doc critically, review a risky change, and understand the tradeoffs the team is making

Requirements:

• You have managed software engineers directly for several years, including hiring, performance management, and technical growth
• You have shipped consumer-facing product experiences, on mobile, embedded devices, or web, and you understand what makes them feel fast and reliable to a user
• You have a strong engineering background and have gone deep in at least one area
• You can still read and reason about code and architecture
• You communicate clearly with Product, Design, Data Science and executives, you've learned how to get to ‘yes' without overcommitting the team
• You can hold a direct, respectful conversation with someone who is underperforming, framed around the opportunity ahead of them
• You use AI-assisted engineering tools yourself and can tell when their output is good and when it is not
• Experience with Android, Kotlin, Flutter, or Swift, or with software that ships alongside a physical product
• Experience leading a team through a platform or release-process modernization
• Background in connected fitness, consumer hardware, or digital health
• Experience managing distributed or contract engineers