# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Socket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/socket)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Technical Leadership, architecture, product sense
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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