Engineering Manager

About us

Intellum is the leader in corporate education technology and powers the largest most successful customer partner and employee learning programs in the world. Large brands and fast-moving companies like Google Meta Amazon Walmart Xero Atlassian Mailchimp Airbnb Stripe and TikTok rely on Intellum to engage and educate the audiences they touch.

We have always been a remote first company and are proud to have team members located all over the world. We value Curiosity Creativity Perseverance and Kindness and strive to demonstrate these core values every day. Our culture is very important to us. We invest in our people in fun and exciting ways including personal development budgets and an annual all-company retreat that is focused less on work and more on human connections. We are in growth mode and our smart growth approach ensures that we will continue to scale our company effectively.

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager who leads by example contributing to design discussions writing and reviewing code and staying close to the systems the team owns.

In this role you will manage a team of 4 front-end and back-end engineers while driving clear accountable execution across product development technical improvements and operational responsibilities. You will also partner closely with Product Quality Assurance and peer engineering teams to enhance and scale Intellums platform.

Success in this role requires balancing business value delivery with long-term maintainability by setting priorities protecting focus resolving blockers and ensuring solutions are reliable secure and well-supported in production.

Responsibilities

• Manage the team in a hands-on capacity writing and reviewing code guiding technical decisions and staying close to the systems youre responsible for.
• Drive predictable execution by setting priorities managing scope and ensuring releases deliver measurable business value on time and on budget.
• Maintain high code quality reliability and security standards and reinforce best practices.
• Evaluate technical approaches for feasibility and long-term sustainability balancing simplicity scalability and business timelines.
• Oversee incident response and on-call practices resolving production issues promptly and ensuring root causes are addressed with durable fixes.
• Sustain a high-performing team by setting clear expectations protecting focus removing blockers ensuring work is seen through to completion and providing regular feedback and coaching to support growth.
• Collaborate closely with peers Product and other stakeholders to align engineering work with business priorities.
• Communicate progress risks and tradeoffs effectively to all stakeholders escalating when necessary and maintaining trust through transparency.

Skills & Qualifications

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Engineering supervisory and/or management experience contributing technically while guiding others.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and a requirement as youll be actively coding in this role.
• Experience across modern web technologies such as HTML CSS React Rails/Node and relational or document databases (e.g. Postgres MongoDB).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful API design and building scalable backend services.
• Experience supporting production systems including participation in on-call rotations or incident response.
• Track record of driving projects to completion and holding delivery commitments.
• Strong communication skills capable of translating technical decisions into clear business tradeoffs and implications; balances confidence in technical expertise with the humility to adapt ask questions and continuously learn from peers reports and stakeholders.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent professional experience.

What You Can Expect During the Interview Process

We believe in a thoughtful interview experience that allows both you and our team to determine if this is the right fit. Heres what the process typically looks like:

Initial Conversation with Talent Acquisition
Youll start with a conversation with our recruiter to learn more about the role the team and Intellum and to discuss your background interests and what youre looking for next.

Interview with the Hiring Manager (VP of Engineering)
This conversation will dive deeper into the role team dynamics technical expectations and how this position contributes to our broader engineering and business goals.

Technical Interview & Case Study
Youll participate in a technical discussion that includes a real-world case study. Well ask you to walk us through your thinking approach and decision-making. Youll also have the opportunity to share code youve written and discuss it with members of our engineering team.

Interview with Key Stakeholders
Youll meet with cross-functional partners and other key stakeholders to explore collaboration communication style and how we work together across the organization.

Final Conversation with the CEO
The final step is a conversation with our CEO focused on alignment with our values vision and long-term goals.

BENEFITS

• Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans
• Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
• Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
• LinkedIn Learning
• 401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)
• Unlimited PTO
• Calm subscription
• Annual Company Retreat

Intellum is an equal-opportunity employer. Were committed to building an inclusive team that celebrates diversity in people perspectives and backgrounds regardless of race color national origin gender sexual orientation age religion disability citizenship veteran status or any other protected status. We encourage you to apply for an open position and if you have questions about whether or not your job experience and skill set meet the requirements for a specific role reach out to us directly at

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