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Engineering Manager, Decision Advantage

Lead the Decision Advantage engineering team building mission-critical intelligence and decision support applications for national security. Requires 8+ years software engineering experience and 3+ years managing full-stack teams, with strong product instincts and customer partnership skills.

200k – 260k
Remote8+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What you’ll do

Product engineering: Lead the Decision Advantage team in designing, building, and shipping cutting-edge applications, services, and agents using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS.

Customer and mission partnership: Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows.

Developer and team acceleration: Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices.

Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact.

Cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable software.

What we look for

  • 3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems.
  • Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.
  • Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.
  • Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings.
  • Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.
  • Proficiency with coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar; Postgres or other relational databases; software development in AWS or other cloud services.
  • Willingness to travel to off-sites, team syncs, and customer sites.
  • U.S. Citizenship required to access U.S.-only data systems.

Nice to have

  • Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one.
  • Prior experience building software for defense, national security, or intelligence use cases.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $260,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Remote friendly with WeWork access
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
  • 401(k) match
  • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Skills

TypeScriptReactTailwindNode.jsPythonPostgresAWSFull Stack Development
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