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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager leads software engineering teams building full-stack AI-powered government software, providing technical architecture, hands-on coding (up to 20%), mentorship, and cross-functional alignment. Requires 4+ years software engineering (full-stack) and 2+ years leadership experience.

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Remote4+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What You Will Work On

  • Designing and implementing end-to-end features, from user interfaces to scalable backend services
  • Improving the performance and responsiveness of our core application across the full stack
  • Collaborating with our customers to translate their needs into technical solutions
  • Building reliable data pipelines and integrations for our product features
  • Designing systems that support AI-driven automation features
  • Scaling the engineering organization while maintaining high talent density

Tech Stack
Backend: Java, PostgreSQL
Frontend: React, TypeScript
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform
Developer Tools: GitHub, Linear, Claude Code, Cursor, CI/CD, automated testing

Your Role

Team Leadership & Mentorship

  • Lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to develop strong design, coding, and problem-solving skills across the team
  • Manage team health, set goals, conduct performance reviews, and support individual career development and progression

Strategic Execution & Delivery

  • Partner closely with different functional teams to define and execute roadmaps that result in measurable business and customer outcomes
  • Hands-on coding for up to 20% of your weekly time, as team needs require
  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, developer experience, and delivery pipelines
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with all leadership, Customer Success, and Operations to align technical initiatives with overall company strategy

Architectural Guidance & Standards

  • Guide critical architectural decisions focused on scalability, performance, and maintainability across our core backend and infrastructure systems
  • Champion and drive high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and overall engineering excellence
  • Contribute to technical designs and write or review code, particularly for complex or high-impact projects

What We’re Looking For

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with strong proficiency in both backend (e.g., Java, Python) and frontend (e.g., React) technologies
  • 2+ years of engineering leadership experience, including successfully managing an engineering team or leading multi-quarter initiatives
  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality, user-facing product features across the full stack
  • Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and system reliability engineering (SRE) practices
  • A demonstrated ability to successfully balance people leadership with significant technical contribution
  • Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to clearly bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • A strong sense of ownership, a bias for action, and a commitment to leading by example and mentoring others

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and stock equity plan
  • Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Company sponsored pre-tax retirement savings program (401k)
  • A flexible work environment that supports working from home
  • Flexible PTO
  • Parental Leave
  • Home office stipend

Skills

JavaReactTypeScriptPostgresAWSDockerTerraformCI/CDGitHubPython
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