Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Directly supervise an initial team of seven engineers through individual meetings, goal setting, feedback, coaching, and personalized development plans.

• Oversee performance evaluations, calibration, fair assessments, and address performance issues in collaboration with HR.

• Collaborate with the Managing Director regarding compensation and career progression decisions.

• Effectively communicate, document, and ensure compliance with company policies regarding personnel decisions.

• Foster a respectful, remote-first team culture.

• Tackle issues related to workload, burnout, employee engagement, retention, and career development risks.

• Manage staffing strategies for both internal initiatives and client projects.

• Balance business demands and utilization against individual growth, workload, and wellbeing.

• Resolve staffing conflicts in collaboration with project managers, delivery heads, and engineering domain leaders.

• Anticipate capacity requirements, hiring needs, available bench time, and key-person dependencies.

• Partner with HR and recruitment teams regarding job requisitions, interviews, hiring, and onboarding processes.

• Maintain accurate headcount and personnel records.

• Report on utilization, staffing forecasts, attrition rates, hiring progress, and development activities.

• Enhance people-management and staffing practices through documented workflows, effective communication, and suitable tools, ensuring the confidentiality of employee information.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or technical delivery.

• At least 3 years of direct experience managing engineers, including responsibility for hiring, performance reviews, coaching, and personnel decisions.

• Proven success in staffing engineers across multiple concurrent projects or engagements.

• Experience managing allocations, capacity, utilization, or similar resource-planning measures.

• Experience leading structured performance review and calibration processes aligned with an established engineering career framework.

• Technical knowledge of modern software delivery and cloud environments.

• Ability to assess skills, workloads, and staffing risks with credibility.

• Capable of developing engineers, navigating challenging performance discussions, supporting retention, and exercising sound judgment in sensitive personnel matters.

• Strong written communication, forecasting, and organizational skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with distributed engineering teams, HR, and business stakeholders.

• Preferred: Experience in people management within technology consulting, professional services, or organizations that staff engineers across diverse client engagements.

• Preferred: Experience guiding teams through organizational change, employee development, mentorship, or retention initiatives.

• Preferred: Background in mortgage, financial services, or other technology organizations within regulated industries.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Float, Kantata, Jira, or similar capacity/resource management systems.

• Preferred: Completion of formal training in engineering management, coaching, or leadership development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with flexible arrangements.

• Up to 10% travel may be necessary based on business requirements.