Engineering Manager (Acquired Products & VPN) (Remote)

Role overview Take technical ownership of a recently acquired consumer VPN product and become the engineering leader for future acquired products. The role blends hands-on engineering, product thinking, and integration work, taking unfamiliar live products from acquisition through stabilization and ongoing growth, and building a repeatable playbook for onboarding additional acquisitions.

Responsibilities - Lead technical onboarding of acquired products, from due diligence through transition and steady-state ownership. - Assess inherited architecture, infrastructure, security posture, vendors, operational risks, and technical debt. - Establish knowledge transfer and ensure critical operational knowledge is documented before it leaves with the previous team. - Define and execute the transition plan with the acquired team and internal stakeholders. - Review and write production code alongside the team, debug incidents, and make architectural and prioritization calls. - Run delivery with two-week sprints, clear OKRs, sensible estimation, and honest status reporting. - Advocate for unit and integration testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and continuous shipping to production. - Operate with a security- and compliance-minded approach covering secrets management, encryption, user privacy, and regimes such as GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2. - Build and continuously improve a repeatable engineering acquisition playbook.

Requirements - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers as a people manager or hands-on tech lead in an agile environment delivering consumer products. - Deep hands-on technical background in at least one core area, with enough breadth to work across the stack; experience in two or more of the following is a strong plus: native mobile (Android/Kotlin/Compose or iOS/Swift/UIKit/SwiftUI), backend services in Go (preferred), Python, or Node.js with PostgreSQL and AWS, infrastructure and DevOps with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, multi-cloud hosting, and observability tooling, and networking and VPN fundamentals including WireGuard, Shadowsocks, DNS, and TLS. - Experience leading or being a key contributor in a technical acquisition, migration, or takeover of a live product, including due diligence, transition planning, knowledge transfer, and integration into a parent organization. - A track record of raising engineering quality on an inherited system by introducing automated testing, CI/CD, code review, documentation, and security hardening. - Comfort operating with incomplete information and an ability to establish the facts quickly under ambiguity.

Benefits and work setup - 100% remote-first, global company. - Competitive compensation package with participation in the company equity plan for full-time team members. - Individual bonuses through a company bonus program. - Open PTO, generous company holidays, and wellness days for full-time team members. - Remote social activities and a weekly meeting-free day for focused execution.