Lead a distributed team of engineers, guiding technical direction, driving execution, and fostering growth and collaboration. Manage remote teams effectively, contribute to coding tasks, and ensure operational excellence. Partner with product, design, and stakeholders to align priorities and execution.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of 5–7 full-stack, frontend, and backend engineers. This role is ideal for someone with proven experience managing engineering teams, who has also thrived as a senior or principal-level individual contributor in a strong engineering culture. You will be responsible for guiding technical direction, driving execution, and ensuring technical and operational excellence while fostering growth and collaboration across your team and the broader engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
•Lead, mentor, and coach a team of full-stack, frontend, and backend engineers.
•Drive delivery of high-quality, customer-facing product features and improvements.
•Provide strong technical oversight through design reviews, code reviews, and process adherence.
•Contribute to small coding tasks or proof-of-concepts as needed.
•Identify technical risks, areas of refactoring, and opportunities for improving developer productivity and software quality.
•Ensure operational excellence in production, including reliability, scalability, and performance.
•Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and execution.
•Recruit, interview, and onboard new engineering team members, including offshore and nearshore contractors.
•Influence and elevate engineering practices across the broader organization, not just within your direct team.
Qualifications
•5+ years of experience in software development, including experience at the Senior or Principal Engineer level.
•2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, ideally at or just entering the Senior Engineering Manager level.
•Track record of managing remote, distributed teams effectively.
•Strong coding background with individual contributor experience in modern web technologies, ideally including:
o Frontend: React.js, TypeScript
o Backend: Node.js, NestJS
o Infrastructure: AWS and microservices-based architectures
•Experience working on core or customer-facing products in a microservices environment.
•Demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects with high accountability and ownership.
•Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design.
•Strong leadership skills in mentoring, coaching, conflict resolution, and building high-performing teams.
•Ability to identify, drive, and influence technical best practices across multiple teams.
Leadership Qualities
•Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
•Clear, proactive communicator.
•Skilled mentor and coach who fosters career growth.
•Ability to influence engineering culture and practices beyond direct reports.
•Comfortable making and driving decisions in ambiguous situations.
Location
•Remote-first role.
•Open to candidates in any US-based time zone.
•Team includes both US-based engineers and offshore/nearshore contractors.