Engineering Manager

About LeafLink

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC’s, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology.  LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’; one of Fast Company’s ‘Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020’, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare; one of Built In NYC’s ‘Best Places to Work in 2021’; 2024 Fast Company’s Best WorkPlaces for Innovators for Banking, Finance, and Fintech category; 2024 Green Market Report Award for Best Fintech in cannabis - and we’re just getting started!

The Role

LeafLink is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building and evolving the technology that powers our eCommerce marketplace. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and delivery ownership, with responsibility for guiding a team through complex technical decisions and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality products and systems.

As an Engineering Manager, you will serve as the technical leader for your team, working closely with engineers, Product Management, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business priorities into sound technical solutions. You will establish technical direction, guide architectural decisions, identify risks and dependencies, and ensure the team has the clarity and support needed to execute effectively.

This is not a traditional individual contributor role, but it is a deeply technical one. You will be expected to understand your team’s systems, participate meaningfully in design and architecture discussions, review critical technical decisions, and provide hands-on technical guidance when needed. Your primary leverage comes through the team: setting direction, developing engineers, improving execution, and creating an environment where strong technical work can happen consistently.

You will work across modern frontend and backend technologies and architectural patterns, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, containerized and serverless applications, Kubernetes, AWS managed services, event-driven systems, third-party integrations, and service-oriented architectures.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering judgment with effective people leadership and operational discipline. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, leading complex initiatives, balancing product delivery with long-term technical health, and creating alignment across engineering and product teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, supporting their day-to-day effectiveness, technical growth, career development, and long-term goals.
• Serve as the technical leader for your team, establishing technical direction and ensuring engineers make sound architectural and software design decisions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of your team’s systems and technical domain, providing meaningful guidance on architecture, implementation strategy, scalability, reliability, security, and operational readiness.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps, sequence initiatives, identify dependencie…