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Senior Engineering Manager

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🔥 19 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

đź’µ $150k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

đźź  Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Posted on Thorn's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 19 minutes ago

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Thorn

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

đź”’ Cybersecurity

đź’° Venture Round on 2017-01

Non-profit • Social Impact • Cybersecurity

Thorn is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet safer for children and defending them from sexual abuse. Founded in 2012, Thorn creates and implements technology solutions to identify and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and assist in the identification of victims. In addition to providing resources for youth, parents, and platforms, Thorn engages in cutting-edge research on online threats and opportunities for safety. The organization is committed to empowering individuals and businesses to protect children and has partnered with companies like Slack to enhance online safety protocols. Thorn also influences policy and supports the prevention of online child exploitation through education and awareness campaigns.

đź“‹ Description

• Lead a high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive team of engineers with varied technical specialties across the stack • Build a culture of curiosity, healthy disagreement, learning, and accountability • Partner with Product, UX, and technical leaders to understand user needs, shape product direction, and guide work from discovery through release and iteration • Evaluate solutions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data systems, and infrastructure • Connect technical decisions across specialties and empower people closest to the work to lead • Create clarity around priorities, ownership, capacity, and expectations • Coordinate dependencies, surface risks, clear roadblocks, and improve software development lifecycle practices • Balance product delivery with investments in reliability, security, privacy, maintainability, and developer experience • Manage technical debt and long-term system health • Collaborate across engineering and cross-functional teams to navigate challenges, build alignment, and strengthen engineering practices • Manage and develop direct reports through 1-1s, quarterly check-ins, coaching, and candid feedback • Set expectations, recognize performance, address concerns, and protect employee wellness • Create growth opportunities, develop technical leadership skills, and delegate ownership • Define and lead the team hiring process with People & Culture • Hire for technical strength, collaboration, and mission alignment

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to putting the children served at the center of everything • Demonstrated track record of managing and developing software engineers, building strong teams, and delivering products that meet real user needs • Strong software engineering foundation and experience leading engineers across frontend, backend, data systems, and cloud infrastructure • Experience guiding technical decisions and connecting work across specialties • Passion for product engineering and experience partnering with Product and Design • Experience turning ambiguous problems into practical solutions and improving based on results • Strong judgment balancing user needs, technical constraints, delivery commitments, engineering quality, and team capacity • Experience setting clear expectations, providing candid feedback, and supporting engineers with varied skills and career goals • Leadership with empathy, humility, and accountability • Cross-disciplinary collaboration and constructive disagreement resolution • Clear, efficient, and thoughtful communication with technical and non-technical audiences • Strong written communication and accessible documentation skills • Experience or ability to learn technologies including Python 3, TypeScript, React, Node, Express, GraphQL, Prisma, Apollo, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, Amazon SQS, Google PubSub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work model, working from home most of the time • Company-wide gatherings • In-person team meetings and team-building events • Attendance at specific conferences • Broad range of employee benefits • Reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities • Inclusive environment where all employees can thrive

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