Engineering Manager

About the role

We're looking for Engineering Managers to our growing core engineering team. This isn't a "manage the roadmap and attend standups" kind of role — you'll be in the code, shaping architecture, and doing hard technical work alongside your team. You'll set direction, grow engineers, drive execution, and keep the bar high. We’re looking for first-line managers who are ready to lead from the front.

What You'll Do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers who genuinely care about what they build and how they build it.
• Drive execution on complex, high-priority projects — keeping things moving without cutting corners that matter.
• Get your hands dirty — write and review code, weigh in on architecture, debug the hard stuff.
• Partner with technical leaders across the company to align your team's direction with broader product and engineering goals.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices: quality, reliability, and correctness. (We really mean it about correctness.)
• Build a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

What We're Looking For

• Strong engineering chops — comfortable in C++, Python, Java, Go, or similar. You don't need to know every language we use, but you do need to be genuinely good at programming.
• Experience with test infrastructure, or developer tooling is a major plus.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, databases, and large-scale architectures — ideally with some scars to prove it.
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams — recruiting, mentoring, and growing talent, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Strong technical judgment. You can make the right call on hard architectural questions and explain why clearly.
• Excellent communicator. You can align engineers, PMs, and executives around a shared direction without losing anyone along the way.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity. We're early. Things change. You adapt.

About Our Team

The team has backgrounds spanning traditional CS degrees, philosophy, mathematics, and everything in between — or nothing formal at all. What everyone shares is a high bar for engineering quality. Managers here are expected to meet that same bar: this isn't a role where you stop coding when you get the title. We also genuinely believe in in-person work. It's how we build trust, share knowledge, and figure out hard problems together. That's why this role is 5 days a week in our Northern Virginia office.

Pay

Compensation Range: $185K - $250K