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SocketSocketUnited States

Engineering Manager

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team at Socket, facilitating technical decisions, aligning on priorities, and balancing long-term investments with execution in a remote-first environment. Requires experience managing engineers, strong technical judgment, and product sense.

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Remote5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy where people can do their best work, make decisions, and continue to develop.
  • Partner closely with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team is solving the right problems.
  • Stay engaged with technical decisions, helping the team reason through architecture, trade-offs, and complexity.
  • Improve the process of how we work, identifying bottlenecks, refining processes, and automating away toil.
  • Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by helping the team align on priorities, make thoughtful decisions, and maintain strong execution.
  • Balance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs, ensuring the team delivers sustainable, high-quality outcomes.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to lead and make decisions.

What You'll Bring

  • Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment where priorities and solutions are not always clearly defined.
  • Instinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems, including the unglamorous seams between teams.
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions, understand trade-offs, and guide technical decisions.
  • Comfort working in a TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem is a plus.
  • Strong product sense: able to talk directly to customers, absorb inputs from many sources, and determine how a product should work.
  • Communication that keeps other teams informed on your team’s goals, needs, and progress, and that provides your team with enough context to make good decisions.
  • Experience managing in a remote environment, ideally with a globally-distributed team.

Benefits

  • Market competitive salary bands
  • Meaningful equity program
  • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
  • Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptTechnical Leadershiparchitectureproduct sense

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