[Remote] Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Code for America is a nonprofit organization that uses technology to improve government and community services. The Engineering Manager will lead, coach, and develop an engineering team while contributing hands-on to technical work, overseeing delivery, architecture, quality, and the operation of reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the engineers on your team through regular check-ins and clear, candid feedback; create growth opportunities and stretch assignments that build new technical and professional skills
• Provide oversight of technical delivery across 2–3 projects your team contributes to, monitoring progress, identifying and mitigating risks, and driving to successful, durable outcomes
• Mentor staff on best practices and sound technical judgment, and lead by example, establishing patterns others on the team follow
• Actively create opportunities for engineers to own meaningful work, with clear expectations and the accountability that lets them grow into it
• Proactively address conflict directly and promptly; mediate disagreements between team members
• Recruit and retain engineering talent with the skill, mission commitment, and appetite for innovation to thrive at Code for America
• Establish direction for technical work within a team, anticipating challenges, documenting decisions, and helping the team understand the why behind approaches, not just the what
• Partner with product, design, research, and program leads to align on priorities and resolve cross-team dependencies before they block the team
• Craft new features, write automated tests, and build monitoring that holds a high bar for quality
• Work iteratively to ship minimal features, learn, and harden them to scale once proven
• Own architecture and data-modeling decisions for significant parts of a production system, weighing tradeoffs across competing priorities — speed vs. maintainability, the familiar tool vs. the right one, ideal vs. feasible
• Contribute to design, implementation, and code review, and make technical trade-offs alongside your team, using AI-assisted development
• Guide how your team adopts new and better ways of working — modern delivery practices, new stacks, and AI-assisted development — creating room to experiment and managing the transition
• Support Engineering's culture of writing by producing quality documentation and learning materials for internal and external audiences
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• At least 7 years of experience as a software engineer, engineering manager, or equivalent, with experience managing engineering teams
• Experience across multiple languages, frameworks, or tech stacks with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into unfamiliar ones
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills–including stellar writing skills–and a demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional relationships and facilitate decision-making conversations
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical teams to build and operate technical solutions with testing, observability, and operational rigor that keep them reliable
• Experience developing and empowering collaborative, high-performing teams, and to manage through ambiguity in a fast-changing environment
• Familiarity with how to apply AI and emerging technologies effectively, including how to anticipate and mitigate their risks, and experience with AI-assisted development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Experience with Agile Software Development models like Scrum, XP, TDD, or BDDDemonstrated ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validating and refining generated code for quality, and modeling that discipline for the engineers you lead; more broadly, a curiosity about emerging AI tools, a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively, and the judgment to see where they add value and where they add risk
• Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively
• A deep commitment to Code for America's mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most
• Code for America is based in California and can employ those who reside full-time within the United States
• This role is a remote position
• This role will report to the Director or Senior Director of Product Engineering and is expected to travel no more than 10% of the time
• Personal or professional experience with the social safety net or other mission-relevant government services
• Experience in government, civic technology, or digital transformation initiatives
• Experience leading matrixed, multidisciplinary teams
• Familiarity working within complex, legacy, or regulated technical environments

Benefits

• Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
• A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
• Laptop provided
• A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
• Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
• $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
• Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
• Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth
• Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions.
• Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5%
• At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
• A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
• Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
• Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours
• Open personal time off (*subject to manager approval*), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
• Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
• 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
• 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service

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