At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.
Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology.
We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people. Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!
Your roleAs an Engineering Manager for the MFA team, you’ll be leading a full stack team focused on one of the key opportunities for Mindbody: securing our user’s authentication with multiple factors.
You’ll pursue continuous improvement to help Mindbody achieve its mission: Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else.
- Empower your engineering team to deliver a high level of technical quality and business impact.
- Work across teams and technical stacks to implement secure authentication for every customer.
- Recruit a diverse team of engineers that are amongst the best in the industry, from outreach to closing.
- Manage a team of engineers and help develop their careers with stretch responsibilities and excellent feedback.
- Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions for your team.
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Mindbody’s engineering management team.
You are an experienced engineer turned successful people leader who is passionate about creating impactful and high-quality web applications. You have deep experience in at least one aspect of developing a world class web application and you can manage a high performing team through the entire process.
You’ll thrive in this role with experience in:
- 3+ years of directly managing a full stack engineering team of at least 6 people.
- Experience with Authentication and Authorization protocols including OAuth and OIDC.
- Experience shipping high quality websites or mobile applications.
- You have established the architecture and best practices for web or mobile applications and their backends.
- You have a proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, develop and execute.
Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.
Playlist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.
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Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.
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