Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Apply Digital as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of up to 15 engineers, driving strong outcomes for clients and the business. This technical team leadership role focuses on team effectiveness, delivery health, and career development, requiring you to navigate shifting priorities and evolving processes. You will support and grow engineers by providing coaching, feedback, and development opportunities. Success involves building strong relationships, helping engineers navigate complexity, and contributing to talent development and delivery health. You will also contribute to shaping Apply Digital's engineering culture and improving its delivery approaches, technical practices, and organizational structure. The role demands leadership in technical environments, a strong engineering foundation, a people-first mindset, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Apply Digital offers a hybrid/remote-friendly work environment and various benefits.

Requirements

• Leadership in technical environments : You've led engineering teams—big or small—and understand how to guide them through delivery, growth, and change. Experience in an agency or consulting environment is a strong asset, especially if you’ve balanced delivery needs with people support
• Strong engineering foundation : You’re confident operating at the solution design level, and can engage deeply enough with technical discussions to support decision-making, hiring, and team guidance. You understand modern software practices and know how to assess technical choices—even if you're not the one writing the code
• People-first mindset : You care about growing individuals and teams. You’ve given feedback, mentored engineers, and helped people navigate both opportunity and challenge
• Cross-functional collaboration : You’re experienced in working with project managers, other engineering leaders, and internal stakeholders like client partners, directors, and HR. While you're not client-facing day to day, you’re comfortable navigating organizational complexity and surfacing the right voices at the right time
• Comfort with ambiguity : You can navigate evolving org structures, shifting client needs, and a whole lot of “we haven’t figured that out yet” without losing your footing. You know how to bring clarity when it’s missing, surface tensions constructively, and step into uncomfortable situations to keep people aligned and work on track
• Global teamwork : You’ve worked with distributed teams—or are confident in your ability to learn how to thrive in that environment. You value diverse perspectives and approach cross-regional collaboration with cultural awareness, curiosity, and respect
• A growth mindset : You’re not here to coast—you’re here to help shape something. Whether that’s growing a team, refining a process, or contributing to org-wide efforts like hiring, leveling, or culture-building, you’re in it for the long game

Responsibilities

• Supporting and growing engineers : Provide coaching, feedback, and development opportunities to help individuals thrive and progress in their careers
• Fostering team health : Support a team of up to 15 engineers across multiple customer experience projects—typically web and app builds—ensuring workloads are sustainable and collaboration stays strong
• Navigating ambiguity : Help your team stay focused through shifting priorities, organizational change, and evolving tech needs
• Contributing to delivery : While you won’t be hands-on with code, you’ll help projects stay healthy by ensuring staffing is appropriate, risks are surfaced early, and engineers are supported in making sound, consistent technical decisions
• Hiring and onboarding : Partner with our talent team to recruit, evaluate, and onboard great engineers
• Working across regions : Collaborate with global peers to support distributed teams, share practices, and coordinate staffing needs across time zones and clients
• Supporting performance : Provide regular feedback, help resolve challenges, and ensure expectations are clear, achievable, and aligned with Apply’s values
• Shaping our practices : Collaborate with other EMs and leaders to improve how we grow, support, and scale engineering across the organization

Benefits

• Great projects: Broaden your skills on a range of engaging projects with international brands that have a global impact
• An inclusive and safe environment: We’re truly committed to building a culture where you are celebrated and everyone feels welcome and safe
• Learning opportunities: We offer generous training budgets, including partner tech certifications, custom learning plans, workshops, mentorship, and peer support
• Generous vacation policy: Work-life balance is key to our team’s success, so we offer flexible personal time offer (PTO); allowing ample time away from work to promote overall well-being
• Customizable benefits: Tailor your extended health and dental plan to your needs, priorities, and preferences
• Flexible work arrangements: We work in a variety of ways, from remote, to in-office, to a blend of both