Engineering Manager

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $128.9k - $157.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Code for America

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Government • Social Impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving government services and fostering resilient communities. The organization leverages technology to simplify access to food benefits, tax filing, criminal record clearance, and more, aiming to break down barriers and find real solutions for individuals across the country. Through partnerships with governments and communities, Code for America designs human-centered applications and provides consulting and advisory services to enhance social safety nets and government processes. By building tools and resources that facilitate easier benefit enrollment and tax services, Code for America strives to create a more inclusive government that works for everyone.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers building and operating systems that make critical public services more effective • Supervise, coach, and develop engineers through check-ins, feedback, growth opportunities, and stretch assignments • Oversee technical delivery across 2–3 projects, monitoring progress, mitigating risks, and driving durable outcomes • Mentor staff on best practices and sound technical judgment • Create opportunities for engineers to own meaningful work with clear expectations and accountability • Address and mediate conflicts between team members • Recruit and retain engineering talent • Establish technical direction, anticipate challenges, document decisions, and explain rationale • Partner with product, design, research, and program leads on priorities and dependencies • Craft features, write automated tests, and build monitoring for quality • Ship minimal features iteratively, then harden them to scale • Own architecture and data-modeling decisions for significant production-system components • Contribute hands-on to design, implementation, and code review using AI-assisted development • Guide adoption of modern delivery practices, new technology stacks, and AI-assisted development • Produce technical documentation and learning materials for internal and external audiences • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience as a software engineer, engineering manager, or equivalent, including experience managing engineering teams • Experience across multiple languages, frameworks, or technology stacks, with ability to ramp quickly into unfamiliar ones • Excellent communication, collaboration, and writing skills • Ability to manage cross-functional relationships and facilitate decision-making conversations • Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical teams building and operating reliable technical solutions with testing, observability, and operational rigor • Experience developing and empowering collaborative, high-performing teams and managing through ambiguity in a fast-changing environment • Familiarity applying AI and emerging technologies effectively, anticipating and mitigating risks, and experience with AI-assisted development • Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling • Experience with Agile Software Development models such as Scrum, XP, TDD, or BDD • Ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validating and refining generated code for quality • Curiosity about emerging AI tools and commitment to using them responsibly and effectively • Deep commitment to Code for America's mission • Personal or professional experience with the social safety net or other mission-relevant government services is a bonus • Experience in government, civic technology, or digital transformation initiatives is a bonus • Experience leading matrixed, multidisciplinary teams is a bonus • Familiarity with complex, legacy, or regulated technical environments is a bonus • Must reside full-time within the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment • Laptop provided • One-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with the equipment policy • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual professional development stipend, prorated at time of hire • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 • Training/guidance for staff required to utilize AI, plus opportunities to gain AI-related skills • 100% employer match on the first 3% of 401(k) contributions • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% • At least one no-cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage • Minimum 80% of the cost of dependent coverage • Remote work across the US • Open personal time off, subject to manager approval • Minimum of 14 paid holidays • Organization-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day • Paid sick time, up to 96 hours annually • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service