Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead Execution: Own the day-to-day agile development processes of your engineering squad. Successfully prioritize deliverables, manage sprint planning, and resolve blockers to maintain high team velocity.
• Nurture and Develop Talent: Directly manage, mentor, and grow a hybrid team of full-time software engineers and contractors. Provide clear performance standards, support technical skill development, and guide career growth.
• Partner with Product & Business Stakeholders: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and corporate departments to deeply understand user workflows, translating ambiguous operational requests into clear, structured, and phased technical specifications.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Enforce high-quality development practices on your team, including rigorous code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive system documentation.
• Manage Operational Metrics: Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, and scale, ensuring your team's systems are robust and highly available.
• Bridge Communication Gaps: Drive clear and concise business and technical discussions, writing high-quality project plans, technical specifications, and postmortems to keep both engineering and non-technical partners aligned.

Requirements

• Technical Background: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a solid understanding of software design patterns, APIs, and modern cloud backend architectures.
• People Management Experience: 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a proven track record of hiring, developing, and motivating engineering talent.
• Domain Familiarity: Practical experience building applications within SaaS, workflow tools, CRM, transactional systems, or large-scale enterprise software products.
• Operational Execution Skills: Proven ability to manage a team's backlog, protect developers from over-commitment, make resource trade-offs, and predictably ship high-quality software.
• Demonstrated Capability in Hybrid Team Models: Demonstrated capability in directing and reviewing the work of both internal FTEs and external agency contractors, ensuring quality standards remain high.
• Strong Communication & Stakeholder Empathy: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business terms for stakeholders.
• Security & Compliance Awareness: Solid understanding of data security concepts, specifically managing secure IAM permissions, protecting data privacy, and shielding PII.

Qualifications

• Practical experience building applications within SaaS, workflow tools, CRM, transactional systems, or large-scale enterprise software products.
• Proven ability to manage a team's backlog, protect developers from over-commitment, make resource trade-offs, and predictably ship high-quality software.
• Demonstrated capability in directing and reviewing the work of both internal FTEs and external agency contractors, ensuring quality standards remain high.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business terms for stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of data security concepts, specifically managing secure IAM permissions, protecting data privacy, and shielding PII.

Skills

• Software design patterns
• APIs
• Modern cloud backend architectures
• Software engineering experience
• Team management
• Collaboration with product and business stakeholders
• Technical specification writing
• Operational metrics monitoring
• Communication and stakeholder empathy
• Data security concepts

Benefits

• Full range of benefits including medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) plan, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), commuter program, life and disability insurance, Maven (a support system for new parents), Carrot (fertility benefits), UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network), Employee Assistance Program, and pet insurance.