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About the role
*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.
What they're looking for
- Experience leading and managing a small engineering team, or a technical lead / player-coach ready to formalize into people management
- Still technically hands-on and credible — able to review, contribute to, and make sound decisions within a modern TypeScript codebase
- Strong people-leadership skills: coaching, feedback, performance management, and developing engineers across levels
- Solid delivery management: decomposing work, sequencing, managing dependencies and risk, and communicating status honestly
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, comfortable managing up, across, and outward
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean operating model, biases toward leverage and automation over headcount
More about this role
*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.
In this role, you will lead a small engineering team as a hands-on player-coach — owning the team’s delivery and health, developing the engineers on it, and still contributing directly to the codebase where it adds the most leverage. Engineering Managers turn roadmaps into shipped software through the people they lead, balancing people leadership, delivery management, and personal technical contribution in a deliberately lean, AI-forward environment. Impact on the business: Engineering Managers are the connective tissue between strategy and execution. They build healthy, high-performing teams that ship reliable, money-touching software; they grow engineers from junior through senior; and they multiply their team’s output by staying close enough to the work to unblock it, hold the quality bar, and model strong engineering practice.
- Lead a team of 2–4 engineers (junior through senior), owning their day-to-day management, growth, and performance.
- Own sprint-to-sprint delivery —...
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