Manager, Engineering – Product

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

📋 Description

• Lead and nurture a product engineering team, encompassing hiring, onboarding, mentorship, performance evaluation, and career advancement.

• Manage the entire delivery process from planning to release and ensure follow-through.

• Decompose work into milestones, handle dependencies, identify risks, and establish realistic commitments.

• Set priorities in collaboration with product, design, and engineering leadership.

• Align engineering efforts with customer needs and business objectives.

• Make informed trade-offs between new features, system reliability, and technical debt.

• Review pull requests, troubleshoot production issues, write code and prototypes, while maintaining close engagement with the codebase.

• Influence architectural and implementation decisions in conjunction with technical leads and senior engineers.

• Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows for effective planning, development, testing, triage, and reporting.

• Maintain engineering standards across design and code reviews, automated testing, performance optimization, security, and maintainability.

• Ensure operational health by monitoring, facilitating safe rollouts, handling incident responses, and owning on-call responsibilities.

• Collaborate with product teams and shared platform teams to address dependencies.

• Keep visibility on priorities, progress, risks, and decisions using evidence to enhance execution and outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of professional software engineering experience in building production software, including significant time spent as a hands-on senior engineer.

• At least 2 years of experience managing an engineering team.

• Proficient in working within a modern production codebase, such as TypeScript, Node.js, or React.

• Proven track record of delivering customer-facing SaaS products or services, focusing on reliability, maintenance, and customer outcomes.

• Experience in hiring, coaching, developing engineers, managing their performance, and supporting their career trajectories.

• Possess deep technical judgment and experience leading architectural discussions while evaluating trade-offs.

• Proven ability to collaborate with product and design teams to define priorities, scope of work, and deliver milestones.

• Demonstrated capability in utilizing AI tools and agentic workflows to enhance engineering practices, with a focus on correctness, security, and review.

• Comfort in navigating ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.

• Strong communication skills and effective collaboration across various functions.

• Daily proficiency with AI tools integrated into personal workflows.

• Preferred: recent significant coding contributions as a manager.

• Preferred: experience managing frontend and backend engineers or overseeing multiple technical disciplines.

• Preferred: experience in building and operating software at scale, including performance, reliability, safe migrations, and incident management.

• Preferred: experience within a fast-paced product organization.

• Preferred: experience in introducing AI-native or agent-driven workflows to an engineering team.

• Preferred: experience in developing collaboration, productivity, or workflow software for both individual and enterprise users.

• Preferred: experience in leading distributed teams across various time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• 401k

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Spending accounts

• Life & Disability insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible paid time off

• Enhanced employee assistance program

• Employee wellness stipend

• Professional development stipend