Engineering Manager
Intellum
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Manage the team in a hands-on capacity, writing and reviewing code, guiding technical decisions, and staying close to the systems you’re responsible for.
- Drive predictable execution by setting priorities, managing scope, and ensuring releases deliver measurable business value on time and on budget.
- Maintain high code quality, reliability, and security standards, and reinforce best practices.
- Evaluate technical approaches for feasibility and long-term sustainability, balancing simplicity, scalability, and business timelines.
- Oversee incident response and on-call practices, resolving production issues promptly and ensuring root causes are addressed with durable fixes.
- Sustain a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, protecting focus, removing blockers, ensuring work is seen through to completion, and providing regular feedback and coaching to support growth.
- Collaborate closely with peers, Product, and other stakeholders to align engineering work with business priorities.
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs effectively to all stakeholders, escalating when necessary and maintaining trust through transparency.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Engineering supervisory and/or management experience, contributing technically while guiding others.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Node.js is a requirement as you'll be actively coding in this role.
- Experience across modern web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, React, Rails/Node, and relational or document databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB).
- Hands-on experience with RESTful API design and building scalable backend services.
- Experience supporting production systems, including participation in on-call rotations or incident response.
- Track record of driving projects to completion and holding delivery commitments.
- Strong communication skills, capable of translating technical decisions into clear business tradeoffs and implications; balances confidence in technical expertise with the humility to adapt, ask questions, and continuously learn from peers, reports, and stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits
- Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans
- Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
- Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
- LinkedIn Learning
- 401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)
- Unlimited PTO
- Calm subscription
- Annual Company Retreat
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Hard skills
JavaScriptNode.jsHTMLCSSReactRailsPostgresMongoDBRESTful API designscalable backend services
Soft skills
team managementcommunicationtechnical decision-makingcoachingcollaborationproblem-solvingproject managementfeedback provisiontransparencyadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering