Senior Engineering Manager

Role overview

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team that builds and supports products for organizations working to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse. Partner with product, design, and technical leaders to turn user needs and complex problems into reliable software, while developing engineers and creating a collaborative, accountable team environment.

Responsibilities - Lead and support engineers working across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. - Shape product direction with product and design partners, guiding work from discovery and experimentation through release and continued improvement. - Help technical leads assess solutions across specialties, connect architectural decisions, and empower engineers closest to the work to own decisions. - Set clear priorities, ownership, and expectations; coordinate dependencies, surface risks, remove blockers, and improve delivery practices. - Balance product work with investments in reliability, security, privacy, maintainability, and developer experience. - Coach direct reports through regular one-to-ones, feedback, career development, and delegation; lead team hiring with inclusive practices.

Requirements - Demonstrated experience managing and developing software engineers, building effective teams, and delivering products that meet user needs. - Strong software engineering foundation and experience guiding work across multiple technical specialties. - Ability to collaborate across disciplines, build trust, navigate disagreement, and help teams reach shared direction. - Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including strong written documentation for distributed teams. - Commitment to keeping the needs of children served by the work central to decisions.

Nice to have - Familiarity with technologies such as Python, TypeScript, React, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, containers, cloud platforms, or messaging systems. Experience with every technology is not expected.

Benefits and work setup Remote-first, with occasional travel for organization gatherings, team meetings, or conferences. The listed annual compensation estimate is $150,000–$207,000, with the actual offer depending on factors such as location, skills, and experience. Benefits are offered; specific details were not provided.