Manager Engineering

About the role

This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% remote and is open to any Compeer office location.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, performance management, workforce planning, coaching, talent development, and oversight of third-party engineering resources as needed to ensure delivery of team objectives and continued growth of engineering capability.
• Ensure consistent delivery of technology solutions by establishing priorities, removing blockers, managing dependencies, coordinating internal and third-party resources, and maintaining accountability for delivery commitments, quality, and execution outcomes.
• Guide team-level technical direction and engineering practices, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, scalability, security, maintainability, and long-term supportability requirements.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence by strengthening team effectiveness, addressing friction points, and supporting organizational change initiatives.
• Partner with product, business, and technology stakeholders to align priorities, provide input on feasibility and capacity, and support delivery of business objectives through effective cross-team coordination.
• Improve team-level processes, workflows, and engineering practices to enhance delivery effectiveness, predictability, quality, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience required.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and delivering complex software solutions required.
• Minimum of 3 years of direct people leadership experience, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical direction, including architecture and design decisions, for a team or domain required.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments with product, business, and technology stakeholders required.
• Highly developed leadership capability to build, lead, and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, resilience, and psychological safety through coaching, mentorship, authentic leadership, and clear performance expectations.
• Advanced ability to support adoption and maturation of modern engineering practices and emerging technologies, including cloud-native development, automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, agile product delivery practices, test automation, and AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, quality, scalability, and delivery effectiveness while demonstrating curiosity, continuous learning, and adaptability in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
• Trusted advisor to engineers and stakeholders on complex technical and business challenges, effectively translating technical concepts into business impact and supporting informed product and technology decisions.
• Prominent ability to optimize execution and delivery effectiveness by establishing efficient engineering practices, identifying and removing systemic bottlenecks, and improving predictability, quality, and flow of work.
• Strong ability to translate business objectives into team-level priorities and measurable delivery outcomes while balancing technical feasibility, capacity, and long-term maintainability.
• Solid understanding of software development practices, delivery frameworks, and engineering methodologies, with the ability to assess effort, risk, and operational impact within the team’s domain.
• Proven ability to lead change by translating organizational vision into team-level action, helping team members adapt to evolving priorities, technologies, and ways of working while maintaining engagement and focus on outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Skills

• Advanced ability to support adoption and maturation of modern engineering practices and emerging technologies, including cloud-native development, automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, agile product delivery practices, test automation, and AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, quality, scalability, and delivery effectiveness while demonstrating curiosity, continuous learning, and adaptability in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Benefits

• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Lifetime learning and development programs.
• Mentorship programs.
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.).
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Pay

$118,500 - $180,000 USD

Schedule

Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home