Engineering Manager, Performance

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WHY JOIN ALO?</strong></p> <p>Mindful movement. It’s at the core of why we do what we do at ALO—it’s our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat, making their lives and their communities better. That’s the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.</p></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>We are seeking an&nbsp;<strong>Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering</strong>&nbsp;to lead teams focused on improving the&nbsp;<strong>speed, scalability, and reliability</strong>&nbsp;of our web and mobile platforms. This role partners closely with application, platform, and data teams to ensure performance is built into system design, development workflows, and production operations.</p> <p>You will set performance strategy, guide execution across the stack, and help teams turn performance insights into measurable improvements. This role values&nbsp;<strong>technical depth, thoughtful leadership, and cross-team collaboration</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy</strong>, establishing multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with business and customer experience goals.</li> <li><strong>Lead end-to-end performance architecture</strong>&nbsp;across applications, services, infrastructure, and cloud platforms, ensuring performance is considered at every layer.</li> <li><strong>Establish performance standards, KPIs, and benchmarking methodologies</strong>, including latency, throughput, error rates, and user experience metrics such as Core Web Vitals.</li> <li><strong>Guide performance engineering practices for web and mobile</strong>, including load, stress, endurance, and real-user performance testing.</li> <li><strong>Drive frontend and backend performance improvements</strong>, supporting optimization across APIs, services, databases, caching, networking, and application code.</li> <li><strong>Design and evolve performance tooling</strong>, including profiling, tracing, telemetry, and benchmarking frameworks that provide actionable insights.</li> <li><strong>Embed performance into development workflows</strong>, integrating measurement and regression detection into CI/CD pipelines.</li> <li><strong>Partner with platform, application, and data teams</strong>, ensuring performance considerations are incorporated early in architecture and design decisions.</li> <li><strong>Analyze and resolv