Engineering Manager
rePurpose Global
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Aug 15, 2025
Founded in 2017, rePurpose is the leading Packaging Sustainability & Compliance platform for consumer companies. As pioneers of verified plastic recovery, the company enables brands to measure their plastic footprint and recover plastic waste from nature through a global partner network while streamlining compliance across 45+ packaging regulations.
rePurpose has recovered over 88 million pounds of plastic waste, supported 2,300+ waste workers, and maintains 12 active impact projects worldwide. The company's platform helps brands achieve compliance outcomes through advanced data management and regulatory expertise.
rePurpose is headquartered in New York. Learn more at repurpose.global.
As an Engineering Manager at rePurpose Global you will be responsible for managing and growing a team of engineers while serving as an independent contributor as required. This role will start as predominantly an IC role, evolving into a manager role as the team continues to grow. We’re looking for a player/coach who loves to build products while mentoring and growing a team of engineers. You will collaborate heavily with our product managers and other business leaders throughout the company to ensure alignment between our products and people.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of full-stack engineers: provide mentorship and career guidance, organize sprint plans, run performance reviews.
- Independent contributions: as a player/coach you will be expected to contribute code directly.
- Collaborate with product and design teams on roadmapping, refining requirements and estimation.
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering to refine our processes and technical architecture.
- Project manage the team’s work, ensuring adherence to deadlines and best practices.
- Excellent leadership skills, combining a low-ego approach, competitive spirit, and ability to motivate and empower others
- 7+ years of total experience, with at least 2 years of management experience
- Experience working in a start-up environment with a fast pace and evolving needs
- Experience with the following technologies: Typescript, Nodejs, Relational databases (we use Postgres but any similar experience works!), Modern frontend frameworks (we use Vue, but experience with React or Angular works too), Cloud infrastructure (we use AWS, but experience with GCP or Azure is acceptable), CI/CD
- Biased towards action. You are thoughtful in planning how to build technology but are not afraid to make decisions and do the work that is required to get results
Location Preference:
The role is hybrid working, we are looking for the team members to be located at our head office in New York, with weekly in-office days. We have a truly global team - with members across Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, Nairobi, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, and Jakarta.