Manager, Engineering – Launch

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and guide a diverse group of software engineers.

• Promote technical and career development through constructive feedback, performance evaluations, and personalized growth plans.

• Engage in the recruitment, development, and retention of a high-performing engineering team.

• Offer architectural direction and technical oversight for team services.

• Work in partnership with Product Management to outline roadmaps, prioritize tasks, manage project scopes, and ensure timely delivery.

• Encourage the adoption and responsible use of generative AI tools within the team.

• Deliver AI-assisted development training, support, code review practices, security considerations, and quality assurance checkpoints.

• Oversee the team's engineering processes and uphold best practices in software engineering, architecture, security, testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.

• Promote continuous improvement based on established metrics.

• Ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performance products and services.

• Manage on-call rotations, alerting, monitoring, incident management, post-mortems, and reliability enhancements.

• Communicate roadmaps, delivery targets, obstacles, and issues to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate, deploy, and manage services.

• Address cross-team technical challenges and provide guidance on broader technical solutions and standards.

• Actively contribute to architectural design, technical evaluations, and occasional coding tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Proven success in delivering complex, large-scale systems.

• At least 2 years in a technical leadership or engineering management role with direct reports.

• In-depth knowledge of technology architecture, programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, TypeScript), systems, and security models.

• Expertise in modern web development stacks (e.g., Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, React, MySQL) and API-based architectures.

• Experience in building and managing reliable asynchronous messaging, event-driven systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ) and background processing (e.g., Sidekiq, Celery).

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Demonstrated capabilities in leadership, team building, mentoring, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or similar collaborative development methodologies.

• Knowledge of modern observability solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing production systems.

• Experience developing with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.

• Preferred: Experience in the EdTech sector and a commitment to enhancing learning outcomes.

• Preferred: Background in optimizing engineering processes and fostering continuous improvement.

• Preferred: Experience implementing and managing AI tools and workflows within a development team, with an understanding of responsible AI principles and security considerations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary with a significant variable component.

• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, life, disability, critical illness, accident, FSA, HSA, ID protection, pet, and legal insurance.

• 401K matching up to 5%.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• 4 weeks of vacation.

• 12 sick days.

• 11 company holidays.

• 3 personal days.

• Flexible work schedules and remote work options.

• Casual dress code.

• Fitness challenges and rewards.