Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Counterpart as an Engineering Manager and balance being a prolific individual contributor with coordinating a distributed team of developers. You will help bridge the gap with Product & Business while driving the development of our systems, setting culture, rituals, and processes for a high-functioning engineering team.

Requirements

• 10+ years building engaging and high-performance web applications with various frontend, backend, and cloud technologies. (We use Python, Django, AWS, React)
• 5+ years leading team, demonstrating strong leadership skills and ability to manage and mentor
• Proven ability to manage complex projects from start to finish
• Passion for taking on new problems as we continue to innovate
• Experience working with a worldwide distributed team
• Excellent communication skills, including conveying complex technical concepts and decision points in an accessible manner to non-technical stakeholders and providing clear, actionable guidance to the team
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to contribute hands-on to code and other technical tasks as needed

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack developers to execute roadmap projects
• Break-down product requirements and technical designs into actionable tasks
• Manage cross-team dependencies
• Alternate between hands-on coding and providing strategic technical guidance (code reviews, technical design evaluations, troubleshooting complex technical challenges, and providing contextual information to ensure team members understand the broader impact of their work)
• Adapt and refine technical plans as projects evolve to ensure continual alignment with business objectives
• Maintain a continuous and transparent dialogue to keep technical efforts aligned with evolving product and business needs
• Collaborate with Product Managers by providing detailed insights on the level of effort (LOE) and resource requirements to ensure the product roadmap balances business imperatives and technical feasibility
• Actively contribute to the project design phase by taking ownership of technical design to ensure it aligns with product requirements, is scalable, and minimizes technical debt
• Continuously mentor team members, provide constructive feedback, and conduct performance evaluations to foster professional growth and high performance
• Continuously improve existing systems with an eye toward long-term extensibility and maintainability
• Communicate effectively and transparently with all levels of the organization, ensuring the appropriate level of detail to facilitate understanding and engagement