Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a group of 8 to 12 engineers.

• Oversee hiring, development, performance management, retention, and project delivery.

• Assist the team in adopting Brandt's engineering standards while enhancing planning, building, and shipping practices.

• Determine the application of the Brandt Operating Model, including planning rhythms, review methodologies, and AI workflow integration.

• Manage hiring decisions within Brandt's structured recruitment process.

• Collaborate with fellow Engineering Managers to continuously refine the engineering operating model.

• Maintain and oversee the team's technical debt backlog in conjunction with Tech Leads.

• Plan maintenance alongside feature development, making deferred maintenance costs transparent, and escalate instances of repeated delays.

• Contribute to Tech Leads' reviews and help formulate company-wide engineering standards alongside the Chief Engineer.

• Establish predictable delivery through small-batch planning, early risk identification, and scope renegotiation.

• Design work verification processes to ensure review and testing keep pace with production output.

• Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide timely feedback, create development plans, and manage performance fairly.

• Adopt and enhance Brandt's delivery standards.

• Hold engineers accountable for maintaining quality.

• Advocate for engineers' promotions, specialties, and stretch roles.

• Enhance delivery metrics and question metrics that no longer reflect the current situation.

• Utilize AI throughout the planning, development, testing, and delivery phases while maintaining accountability for released work.

• Assess success through team-level throughput, quality, reliability, hiring, retention, and engineer growth outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

• Proven experience leading a team of 8 to 12 engineers while managing both personnel and delivery commitments.

• Capability to identify the true constraint in a delivery system, articulate the evidence, and recognize when an assessment was incorrect.

• Experience in reducing deferred maintenance while continuing product shipping.

• Proven ability to change team workflows and communicate results, trade-offs, and negative outcomes.

• Hands-on experience with agentic development workflows.

• Evidence of understanding where AI is beneficial and where it falls short, including identifying plausible but incorrect AI-generated work and explaining necessary adjustments.

• Ability to recount a recent change in perspective regarding the role of AI in engineering tasks.

• Proficient in writing actionable documentation, providing timely feedback, and supporting professional growth.

• Commitment to careful decision-making and early risk communication.

• Helpful: experience leading changes in delivery models such as agile transformation, platform migration, or a shift to engineer-owned quality.

• Helpful: experience across multiple product domains or business lines.

• Helpful: experience with regulated, procurement-driven, or public-sector clients.

• No specific years of experience or degree required; demonstrated behaviors are highly valued.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance, with several plans fully covered for you and discounted options for family members.

• Vision insurance fully covered for you, with discounted coverage available for family members; dental insurance available for purchase.

• A flexible, open PTO policy available after 30 days of continuous service, along with nine paid holidays.

• A 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.

• Eligibility for an annual year-end performance bonus targeted at 7% of base salary.

• Up to eight weeks of paid parental leave.

• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance, both fully covered by the company.

• A free Udemy account for ongoing professional development.