Engineering Manager
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
This is an Engineering Manager role leading one of the core product engineering teams at a B2B SaaS company modernizing software for local governments. You will be a hands-on technical leader and force multiplier setting clear direction contributing directly to code and architecture and mentoring a team of 3-7 engineers.
- Lead manage and mentor a team of 3-7 software engineers supporting their career growth and development.
- Partner with product and cross-functional teams to define and execute the technical roadmap for core products.
- Stay hands-on dedicating 20-30% of your time to coding code reviews and architectural design.
- Guide critical architectural decisions to keep systems scalable performant and maintainable.
- Champion high standards for code quality testing documentation and overall engineering excellence.
- 7-15 years of total engineering experience with 5 years as an individual contributor and demonstrated people management experience.
- Proven track record of building and shipping production systems while leading technical teams.
- Strong proficiency in React TypeScript and Python; Kotlin or Go experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with AWS Docker Terraform PostgreSQL and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building and shipping customer-facing products in production environments.
- Background at an early-stage startup or resource-constrained environment.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Cursor or similar) into engineering workflows.
- Sustained tenure per role (2-3 years minimum 4 preferred) demonstrating consistent impact over time.
- Based in the United States able to work US time zones and comfortable with approximately 10% customer travel.
Base salary range: $165000 to $205000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Fully remote within the United States. Primary hub is the Palo Alto California area.