Engineering Manager, Remix
Designer Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech companies using design to improve health, sustainability, or prosperity for people. It backs founding teams, particularly those with design backgrounds, across sectors like fintech, healthcare, climate tech, and developer tools.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech companies leveraging design to drive positive outcomes in health, sustainability, and financial prosperity. Its portfolio spans a wide range of sectors including financial infrastructure (Stripe), preventative health (Omada), collaborative tools (Notion), developer tools (Netlify), product management (Linear), payroll and benefits (Gusto), design tools (Framer), and healthcare infrastructure (Commure), among dozens of other companies across fintech, climate tech, healthcare, EdTech, and AI. The firm also runs 'Designer Founders,' a community and platform highlighting designers who have gone on to found and lead companies, reflecting its focus on backing design-driven founders and design-centric startups from early stages through growth and acquisition.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead a talented full-stack team building the transit planning tools that cities rely on to design smarter, more equitable transportation. You'll combine technical leadership with real-world impact, shipping features that directly shape the daily commute of millions. This is a hybrid position with the expectation that you will be onsite in NYC 2-3 days a week.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong full-stack foundation, ideally across TypeScript/React on the frontend and Rails, Python, or similar on the backend
- Experience managing engineering teams
- Comfortable making technical decisions in a complex, data-rich domain
- Understanding of databases, performance tradeoffs, and reliability at scale
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers building Remix's core planning products and tools
- Own the technical direction of a product that blends complex geospatial data, rich React UIs, and robust backend services
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, and customers to translate insights into engineering priorities and architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers at all levels, running thoughtful 1:1s and growing careers
- Drive improvements to engineering processes from code review standards to CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with other engineering teams across Via to align on shared infrastructure, APIs, and cross-cutting concerns
Benefits
- Free medical plans
- 401K matching
- Catered lunch on Wednesdays