Software Engineering Manager

At Evolve, we’re on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If you’re ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

Why this role

The Manager, Software Engineering will lead our team responsible for connections with our distribution partners and related internal systems such as booking engine, payments systems and third party applications. This role will be leading a distributed team of engineers focused on delivering robust, high-performing, traceable, observable server side systems in a fast-paced agile environment.  This role will collaborate closely with other development teams and the product organization to understand internal and external stakeholder needs and plan migration and roll-out strategies.  This role will be technical, including responsibility for architecture, technical strategy, and communication of technical decisions across the wider organization in addition to delivery of critical systems. 

This role requires broad and deep experience with large-scale system migrations (not rewrites), API design, and developing critical integrations with third party systems. The candidate must be comfortable leading strategy, planning iterative and incremental releases, and contributing tactically to design.

This role will identify and drive process optimizations to improve team alignment, effectiveness and efficiency. This role will collaborate on technology + tool selections, and assign resources as needed to complete product requirements. This position requires frequent communication and interactions with our leadership team, and a driven individual to take on the responsibilities to develop and shape the product’s engineering roadmap and strategic team goals.

What you’ll do

• Oversee technical design and development of new features and capabilities in our APIs to be used by other internal systems 
• Lead all strategy, design, and implementation efforts to define and design high-performing APIs related to third party system integration with our distribution partners
• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and managing complex projects with significant impact
• Lead system assessments and oversee implementations, including project management, change management and issue management
• Manage, develop and mentor a team of developers including giving and receiving performance feedback, driving team engagement and action planning from quarterly engagement survey results
• Partner cross functionally with the Product organization including other development teams, distribution operations, accounting, and guest services to coordinate migrating existing services and define roadmaps for improvements in alignment with the product vision and corporate objectives
• Work closely with the DevOps team to implement CI/CD processes that shorten the development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of high quality software
• Define and implement agile processes that are a best fit and help drive engineering velocity and quality
• Guide technology and tool decisions as they relate to development
• Drive Operational Excellence - establish coding standards and best practices, including monitoring & operation of production services

What makes you a great fit 

• 5+ years of product development experience, ideally in NodeJS, Go or other similar languages (Python, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, etc.)
• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Expertise in designing and implementing solutions in a highly integrated, enterprise scale, multi-technology environment
• Desire to design and build world class solutions
• Experience building commerce applications
• 3+ years of experience in an agile or extreme programming environment while driving continuous improvement
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and timelines
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, conflict resolution and business stakeholder management skills

Nice to haves

• Experience in partnering with DevOps teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Salesforce integration and or development experience a plus
• Experience designing, planning, and executing legacy system migrations

Compensation

For this role, our salary range is $148,000 to $206,000, depending on relevant experience. This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Location 

All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day. We can hire from anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Some positions may also have restrictions based on compensation in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both! If you're planning to move soon, please let us know, and we'll be happy to review your application again.

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How we reward Evolvers

We’re intentional about offering benefits that empower every Evolver to thrive both professionally and personally because they’re more than perks—they’re investments in our customer-obsessed, high-performing team.

We believe in treating others as they want to be treated, providing benefits that deliver real value, and challenging the status quo to meet the diverse needs of our team. Whether it’s helping you take care of your health, plan for the future, or celebrate life’s milestones, our offerings are designed to support you every step of the way.

• Financial Wellness: Industry-competitive pay, equity in the company, and a 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match.
• Family Support: 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus infertility coverage.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans (100% employer-paid for individual enrollment), 10 free mental health visits, and pet insurance.
• Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, RTO (for full-time exempt employees), sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you.
• Travel Perks: Annual Evolve travel credit after one year and discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.
• Growth Opportunities: World-class onboarding programs, learning, and development resources to help you grow your impact.
• Connection: Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve.

How we work together

With our core values as our guide, every Evolver helps shape the company we want to work for and the people we want to be. We’ve cultivated a culture of collaboration, care, and responsibility that we can all be proud of, and we’re excited to see what you’ll bring as your authentic self.

Still curious about who we are and what we do? Read more about our business and our culture at evolve.com.

EEO 

At Evolve, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Evolve participates in e-Verify for all positions.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please let your recruiter know.