Engineering Manager (Hands-On, Full Stack Product)

Location: Remote (United States)

About Our Client

Our client is replacing outdated, manual local government workflows with modern software used by hundreds of government agencies across the U.S. Their AI-powered platform leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) to reduce manual data entry—eliminating delays, backlogs, and errors. The work directly impacts how communities fund schools, infrastructure, and public services.

The Role

Our client is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for the core products, systems, and infrastructure that power the platform. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends people management, architecture, and end-to-end delivery.

You’ll lead engineers building everything from user-facing features and modern frontend systems to scalable backend services and critical platform integrations. You’ll be a force multiplier—setting direction, contributing to design and code, and building a scalable foundation while investing in the growth of each engineer.

What Makes This Team Different

This is a lean environment—no separate QA team, dedicated designers, or product managers. Engineers own the full lifecycle: scoping, building, shipping, and supporting production. If you thrive in ambiguity and dislike hand-offs, you’ll fit right in.

What You’ll Work On

Examples of problems the team tackles:

• Designing and implementing end-to-end features from UI to scalable backend services
• Improving performance and responsiveness across the full stack
• Collaborating directly with customers to translate needs into technical solutions
• Building reliable data pipelines and integrations that support product features
• Designing systems that support AI-driven automation features
• Scaling the engineering organization while maintaining high talent density

Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, PostgreSQL
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Dev Tools: GitHub, Linear, Claude Code, Cursor, CI/CD, automated testing

You don’t need to be an expert in every tool on day one—our client values strong fundamentals and a learning mindset.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship—raising the bar in design, coding, and problem-solving
• Own team health: goal setting, performance reviews, and career development

Strategic Execution & Delivery

• Partner cross-functionally to define and execute roadmaps tied to measurable customer and business outcomes
• Stay hands-on (up to ~20% coding time) depending on team needs
• Improve engineering processes, developer experience, and delivery pipelines
• Collaborate with leadership, Customer Success, and Operations to align technical initiatives with company strategy

Architectural Guidance & Standards

• Guide architectural decisions focused on scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Champion high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and engineering excellence
• Contribute to designs and review or write code on complex, high-impact projects

What Our Client Is Looking For

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience across backend (Java/Python, etc.) and frontend (React, etc.)
• 2+ years of engineering leadership experience (people management and/or leading multi-quarter initiatives)
• Proven ability to ship high-quality, user-facing features across the full stack
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability/monitoring, and reliability/SRE practices
• Ability to balance people leadership with meaningful technical contribution
• Strong communication skills—able to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders
• High ownership, bias for action, and a “lead by example” mindset

Benefits

• Competitive compensation + stock equity plan
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Company-sponsored 401(k) program
• Flexible work environment that supports working from home
• Flexible PTO
• Parental leave
• Home office stipen