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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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