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About the Role

As Rec scales across America, enters new markets, and processes hundreds of millions in revenue for our partners, the Platform team is what makes that possible. You'll own the foundation. Platform spans Infrastructure, Payments & Finance, and DevEx/QA. It's the systems that keep Rec reliable, the money that moves correctly, and the tooling that lets our engineers ship with confidence. You'll lead a team of 4–6 engineers across all three areas, with a clear path to splitting teams as the team grows. The job requires equal parts technical credibility and people leadership. You'll stay close to the code: reviewing, triaging bugs, and fixing things where it makes sense. You set the quality bar through your own standards. On the people side, you're coaching engineers, running the hiring loop for your team, and partnering with Product to shape an ambitious roadmap.

Responsibilities

Manage a team of 4–6 engineers across Infrastructure, Payments & Finance, and DevEx/QA.
Run 1:1s, give real performance feedback, and invest in engineers' careers.
Run the hiring loop for your team, including sourcing, evaluating, and closing engineers.
Build a culture on the Platform team where reliability is a first-class value, quality is the default, and engineers feel ownership over what they ship.
Set and hold the technical bar through code reviews, architecture decisions, and ensuring readiness for shipping.
Stay close to the code by reviewing regularly, triaging bugs, and fixing issues.
Own the technical direction for Platform, including database scaling, payments flow reliability, and reducing friction for engineers.
Use AI tools fluently across your workflow.
Partner with Product to shape the Platform roadmap, translating business priorities into scoped and sequenced engineering work.
Own sprint execution for your team, surfacing blockers early and ensuring commitments are achievable.
Drive launch readiness for major releases, including load testing, capacity planning, and go/no-go decisions.

Requirements

5+ years as a software engineer, including 4+ years managing engineering teams.
AI fluency is non-negotiable.
Experience managing engineers who were as good or better than you technically, and making them better.
Ability to raise the bar by example with strong opinions on code quality, reliability, and definition of done.
Good instincts for roadmap tradeoffs and ability to translate business goals into technical plans.
Experience hiring engineers, including building and running a loop.
Clear, candid, and constructive communication with team, product, and leadership.
Ability to thrive in ambiguity and make decisions without perfect information.
Experience with payments infrastructure (Stripe or similar), platform reliability work, or developer tooling is a plus.
Deep expertise in one area of Platform is more valuable than shallow familiarity across all three.

Skills

AI fluency
Code reviews
Architecture decisions
Bug triaging
Technical direction
Database scaling
Payments flow reliability
Developer friction reduction
Roadmap tradeoffs
Hiring loop management
Clear communication
Ambiguity tolerance
Payments infrastructure (Stripe or similar)
Platform reliability
Developer tooling

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

In-office

Experience Level

5+ years as a software engineer
4+ years managing engineering teams

Benefits

Flexible PTO
Top-tier health/dental/vision
401(k)

About the Company

Rec (rec.us) is reimagining how the world plays, trains, competes, explores, and gets outside.
Our mission is to empower the entire recreation community to thrive.
Our vision is bold: power recreation worldwide.
We are partnering with parks and rec departments, golf courses, campgrounds, gyms, and more to transform a $105B industry.
We're redesigning recreation from the ground up for the mobile-first, AI-powered world.
We're a small team with outsized ambition.
We've built products and led teams at places like Google, Amazon, Uber Eats, MasterClass, The Athletic, Nextdoor, and more.
Our Values: Be Relentless, Move fast, Own it, Ship real value early and often. Win Together, Speak up and go beyond the boundaries of your role. Take Pride, Treat this like it's yours, because it is.