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Engineering Manager
Photon
BrooklynOn-site1mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
Company Mission
Who We’re Looking For
Core Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor engineers across multiple pods, supporting their growth, performance, and career development
- Drive hiring and team building—attracting and retaining strong engineering talent
- Drive execution across teams, ensuring clear priorities, strong alignment, and consistent delivery
- Partner closely with Product, Ops, and Commercial teams to plan roadmaps, scope projects, and make tradeoffs
- Identify and address performance issues, team misalignment, and execution risks
- Contribute to technical direction as needed, while ensuring teams can execute effectively day-to-day
- Build a strong engineering culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and high standards
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering management role
- Experience managing engineers across multiple teams or a full product surface area
- Strong track record of improving team execution, delivery, and overall effectiveness
- Experience identifying and resolving team, organizational, or process issues
- Ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments—across priorities, ownership, and decision-making
- Experience working closely with Product, Ops, and Commercial in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to address difficult or complex situations directly
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in scaling early or growth-stage engineering teams
- Experience improving developer productivity and internal workflows
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, or distributed systems
- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other complex/regulatory environments
- Experience leveraging AI in workflows
Why Join Us
- Work closely with a small, high-performing team across engineering, product, and design
- Work on a problem almost everyone you know has experienced, and help fix a system that’s broken in ways most people just accept
- Be pushed—these are hard problems, and we expect a lot—but the growth and impact that come with it are real
- Manage a team of truly exceptional software engineers
- Join a team that gives a shit—about the work, about each other, and about doing things the right way. High trust, high standards, and we actually like spending time together
Our Values
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Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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