Engineering Manager – Product

ActBlue

Engineering Manager leading the Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control team in ActBlue. Managing engineers to achieve organizational goals in a remote work environment.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $173,676 - $210,741 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a team of software engineers working on ActBlue’s unified authentication and authorization framework to enable seamless login and navigation across our suite of products, ensure best-in-class security, protect donor and entity trust, grow our express universe, and modernize our tech stack.
Support the professional development of your direct reports with supportive and constructive feedback, goal-setting, regular check-ins, and performance reviews.
Work with engineers, product managers, and UX leads to formulate roadmaps that align with our strategic organizational goals. Collaborate on an ongoing basis to achieve them.
Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (internal operational teams, security and platform engineering, CX, Sales, etc.) to ensure alignment on product direction, gather domain expertise, and communicate progress and risks effectively.
Ensure your team delivers on their roadmap and achieves the target strategic outcomes of their work in a high-stakes, regulated environment where precision and reliability are critical.
Enable your team to learn fast while consistently delivering value by prioritizing frequent delivery of small iterations of work.
Drive essential communication between teams to ensure timely, high-quality results that further organizational goals. Resolve blockers and proactively escalate concerns.
Consistently provide your team with the context and resources they need to achieve their goals.
Collaborate with the rest of the engineering department's leadership to cultivate a work environment where everyone can thrive.
Facilitate technical decision-making with an emphasis on security, maintainability, scalability, and performance, ensuring that complex workflows align with best practices, software development methodologies, and coding standards.
Oversee the end-to-end software development process while championing a user-centric approach to iterating and improving on product features.
Promote strong and transparent communication channels both internally and with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

People management experience: 3-5+ years of experience supporting a team of individual contributors at multiple levels, fostering their professional development, and enhancing team performance.
Experience building user-centric engineering products
Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos.
Experience helping teams optimize their collaborations and results using regular feedback loops, retrospectives, experimentation, and iteration.
Strong understanding of and experience with industry best practices for managing software development, particularly agile processes and roles/responsibilities.
Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and consensus across teams and stakeholders.
Strong communication skills with a team-centric and remote-reliant approach to discussion and collaboration.
Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, and fostering a strong sense of belonging on teams.
Experience providing project management and organizational support on complex technical projects from end to end that deliver timely and effective results.
A successful track record with recruiting, retaining, and growing engineering teams.
A strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the desire to cultivate this in your team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Development MethodologiesMVP DeliveryFrequent DeploymentsScope NegotiationsFeedback LoopsRetrospectivesIterationTechnical Decision-MakingPerformance OptimizationUser-Centric Approach

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsTeam-Centric CollaborationTrust BuildingConsensus BuildingCommitment to Inclusion and Diversity