[Remote] Engineering Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EdSights is a higher education technology company that uses AI-powered student conversations and insights to help colleges and universities improve student success, retention, and enrollment outcomes. The Engineering Manager will lead a remote product-focused team while contributing hands-on to technical work, mentoring engineers, partnering with product, and improving engineering processes for the company’s SaaS platform.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a remote engineering team of ~5 engineers
- Act as a hands-on technical leader—participating in code reviews, architecture decisions, and occasional implementation work
- Drive clarity, accountability, and execution across your team
- Foster a high-trust, ownership-driven culture with strong collaboration and effective async communication
- Partner closely with product to plan, prioritize, and deliver meaningful outcomes
- Improve engineering processes, quality, and productivity as the company scales
- Hire top engineering talent both in and out of the US
- Identify and solve problems proactively, bringing solutions—not only issues—to the table
Skills
- Recent experience as an Engineering Manager, preferably in a startup environment
- Hands-on technical skills with the ability to 'walk the walk' as a player–coach
- Proven success contributing to or leading teams in a fast-scaling SaaS environment
- Strong communication skills with experience leading remote teams across time zones
- Results-driven mindset with a focus on impact, velocity, and quality
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
- Experience with GoLang, Python, or Node.js
- Experience leveraging AI tooling, and familiarity with building or integrating AI-driven agents, workflows, or automation into products or engineering processes
- Bias toward action and comfort making decisions in a dynamic environment
- Experience hiring and managing globally distributed teams
- Direct experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment
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