Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead the enhancement of both frontend and backend services across the team, ensuring high reliability for both customers and engineers.

• Design and architect backend systems utilizing modern design patterns and technologies.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, UX, and Design teams to create a customer-focused technical roadmap.

• Assess new agentic tools, open source technologies, and vendor offerings.

• Implement a security-oriented approach across all products and services.

• Leverage data and retrospectives to boost team productivity and overall well-being.

• Establish performance benchmarks based on roadmap achievements, technical excellence, and individual development.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers through practical guidance.

• Provide mentorship to senior engineers by assigning leadership roles and fostering developmental opportunities.

• Handle challenging conversations with empathy and create an environment conducive to team success.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software development, with a strong foundation as an individual contributor.

• At least 3 years of direct management experience: leading teams, mentoring engineers, or fulfilling tech lead roles with personnel responsibilities.

• Proven history of successfully launching and managing full stack, production-scale projects with strict service level objectives (SLOs).

• Extensive knowledge of identity access management and other security products aimed at developers.

• Proficient in Go, Python, or a comparable language, sufficient to review code, assess technical designs, and engage meaningfully in technical discussions.

• Familiar with cloud-native infrastructure, such as GCP (or equivalent cloud), serverless applications like Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, or Azure Functions, and Terraform.

• Strong instincts for AI, including fluency with AI coding assistants and an understanding of their impact on team workflows.

• Awareness of ReBAC and ABAC, including Zanzibar-style systems such as Auth0 FGA, OpenFGA, or SpiceDB.

• Understanding of multi-tenant account models, including business accounts, organizations, workspaces, teams, and role and permission hierarchies.

• Knowledge of GraphQL API design, federation, and gateway architectures.

• Familiar with Elasticsearch or related search and indexing services, as well as Pub/Sub or analogous event-driven data pipelines.

• Experienced with notification services for in-product messaging, webhooks, SMS, email, and third-party integrations.

• Background in phasing out legacy systems and executing incremental migrations without disrupting customer service.

• Experience in evaluating vendors and performing build-vs-buy analyses.

• Familiarity with developer-facing command line interfaces (CLIs) and public APIs.

• Visa sponsorship is not currently available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and equity plan.

• Flexible time off, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays.

• Comprehensive medical coverage, including Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.

• Paid parental leave, along with benefits for fertility, adoption, and other family planning needs.

• Access to in-office workspace located in San Francisco and Chicago.

• Monthly allowance for wellness activities, reading materials, and access to LinkedIn Learning for ongoing development.

• Engagement in both team-oriented and company-wide events and activities that inspire, educate, and foster community.