Engineering Manager

Summary

Join ActBlue's growing engineering department as an Engineering Manager to lead the Internal Tools team. You will expertly lead a diverse team of software engineers, support their professional development, and collaborate with other teams to achieve strategic goals. This role requires significant experience in people management, building user-centric products, and agile software development. You will oversee the software development process, champion a user-centric approach, and foster a thriving work environment. The position is full-time, remote, and offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. ActBlue is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• People management experience: 3-5+ years of experience supporting a team of individual contributors at multiple levels, fostering their professional development, and enhancing team performance
• Experience building user-centric engineering products
• Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos
• Experience helping teams optimize their collaborations and results using regular feedback loops, retrospectives, experimentation, and iteration
• Strong understanding of and experience with industry best practices for managing software development, particularly agile processes and roles/responsibilities
• Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and consensus across teams and stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with a team-centric and remote-reliant approach to discussion and collaboration
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, and fostering a strong sense of belonging on teams
• Experience providing project management and organizational support on complex technical projects from end to end that deliver timely and effective results
• A successful track record with recruiting, retaining, and growing engineering teams
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the desire to cultivate this in your team

Responsibilities

• Expertly lead a diverse team of software engineers through building and maintaining crucial elements of our payments product and internal tooling
• Support the professional development of your direct reports with supportive and constructive feedback, goal-setting, regular check-ins, and performance reviews
• Work with engineers, product managers, and UX leads to formulate roadmaps that align with our strategic organizational themes and goals. Collaborate on an ongoing basis to achieve them
• Ensure your team delivers on their roadmap and achieves the target strategic outcomes of their work
• Enable your team to learn fast while consistently delivering value by prioritizing frequent delivery of small iterations of work
• Drive essential communication between teams to ensure timely, high-quality results that further organizational goals. Resolve blockers and proactively escalate concerns
• Consistently provide your team with the context and resources they need to achieve their goals
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering department’s leadership to cultivate a work environment where everyone can thrive
• Facilitate technical decision-making with an emphasis on maintainability, scalability, and performance, ensuring that complex workflows align with best practices, software development methodologies, and coding standards
• Oversee the end-to-end software development process while championing a user-centric approach to iterating and improving on product features
• Promote strong and transparent communication channels both internally and with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Background or experience in electoral politics and/or the political technology space
• Previous experience in payments, B2B, and/or two-sided marketplaces
• Previous experience working with Ruby on Rails and React

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times