Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join In Tandem as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead a technical team focused on improving co-parenting experiences through OurFamilyWizard. Guide and mentor engineers, establish strong engineering practices, and optimize processes. You will build relationships, assess team performance, and drive organizational change. After an initial acclimation period, you will lead a cross-functional team, focusing on consistent execution, minimizing disruption, and coaching the team on best practices. The role requires strong technical skills, experience managing cross-functional teams, and a servant leadership approach. In Tandem offers a supportive culture and excellent benefits.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience managing cross-functional software development teams
• Strong technical aptitude with broad experience shipping code
• Experience running the day-to-day operations of an agile engineering team
• Knowledge and experience in the basics of agile: planning, estimation, backlogs, standups, and retrospectives
• Experience in Jira and automated tooling frameworks
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to efficiently and effectively manage multiple concurrent projects

Responsibilities

• Guide, coach, and lead a technical team focused on making life easier for families on their co-parenting journey
• Support the growth of engineers on the team and establish strong engineering practices
• Help your team identify "how" a problem is solved and plan for "when" it will be delivered
• Build relationships and assess the landscape
• Observe team practices, catalog consistent and inconsistent behaviors, and highlight what’s working well and where there are opportunities to grow and improve
• Partner with the Engineering leadership team on instrumenting processes and gathering data across tools to help us operate with a more data-driven approach
• Drive an organizational change with measurable impact
• Create org-wide understanding of current processes across teams and form hypotheses on adjustments to our practices that improve our performance
• Drive a change to our operations to help us measure and learn, establishing a pattern for continuous improvement
• Lead a cross-functional team with direct reports
• Focus on consistent execution that minimizes disruption by serving a team in producing simple solutions, ensuring complexity is aligned to value
• Coach the team on technical best practices, facilitate collaboration, and keep tasks small and approachable
• Facilitate a collaborative approach to addressing challenges with a sustained focus on customer value

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in any of the following development technologies a plus – Java, SQL
• Statistics and analytics experience

Benefits

• Full Medical: In Tandem Pays 100% of the premium for employee AND additional family members
• 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
• 12 weeks paid leave for all new parents
• 12 Paid Company Holidays + Paid Winter Break
• Paid Time Off: 0-1 years of employment: 15 Days
• Paid Time Off: 1-3 years of employment: 20 Days
• Learning & Development stipend each year for all employees
• Supportive and flexible working environment – work from anywhere!