Engineering Manager

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead and develop a fast-paced engineering team, providing clear direction, feedback, mentorship, and coaching. They will own planning and execution across projects while helping engineers stay unblocked, focused, and aligned. The role involves defining and evolving hiring processes, standards, and team structures as the company grows. Processes, expectations, and culture will be built to support CivilGrid's next phase of growth.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing a fast-paced engineering team, providing clear direction, feedback, mentorship, and coaching
• Owning planning and execution across projects while helping engineers stay unblocked, focused, and aligned
• Defining and evolving our hiring process, standards, and team structure as we grow
• Building the processes, expectations, and culture that will support CivilGrid's next phase of growth

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• Minimum 3 years experience in engineering management
• Proven track record of growing and managing high-performing engineering teams
• Comfortable in a greenfield environment and excited to shape, design, and stand up new systems
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written
• Have a few war stories to share on running high scale production systems
• BS/MS in Computer Science or similar

Qualifications

• Strong preference for candidates who have managed senior and staff level engineers
• Prior startup or founder experience (a plus)

Skills

• Experience with React, React Native, Tailwind
• Experience with Bun.sh servers deployed on AWS ECS, Postgres on RDS
• Experience with Proprietary mapping data service built for speed and customizability
• Experience with GitHub, Slack, Notion, Figma

Benefits

• Company-funded medical, dental, and vision insurance — including medical plans at no cost to the employee
• FSA (health and dependent care)
• Unlimited PTO and a culture that expects you to actually use it
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• A high-trust team, real ownership, and the chance to do the most meaningful work of your career

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $173,806 - $236,250. Base salary is only one part of your total compensation package at CivilGrid, which also includes meaningful early-stage equity, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to shape a category-defining company.

Schedule

This role is a hybrid role with expectations that you are working from our Boston, MA office at least 2 days per week if hired.