Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pathstream is a company focused on reshaping workforce development through technology. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers, focusing on people management, technical direction, and the responsible adoption of AI tools in their engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage a team of 4+ engineers. Own their growth and performance end-to-end — regular 1:1s, growth plans, performance reviews, compensation recommendations, and timely, candid feedback. Run performance cycles in partnership with your manager, navigating the most sensitive situations with support from senior leadership
- Own hiring for your team. Partner with recruiting to scope roles, run interview loops, and play a central role in evaluating engineering candidates and shaping hiring decisions. Build a team with clear roles, healthy collaboration patterns, and strong engagement, and take ownership of improving the experience of more junior members of the team
- Deliver feedback proactively and partner on solutions. Offer timely, unprompted feedback that integrates new context as it emerges, co-create next steps with the recipient, and know when escalation is appropriate
- Develop engineering talent. Demonstrate success in growing engineers, and establish formal mentoring relationships with more junior engineers — through pairing, design feedback, and code review
- Be a steadying force and a positive influence. Provide team stability through priority and business shifts, bring everyone into the conversation, advocate for the growth and success of others, and publicly celebrate the achievements of your teammates
- Define and own your team's roadmap and technical direction. Influence team priorities to match business objectives, lead service-level planning and technical strategy discussions, and translate company strategy into sequenced, well-scoped engineering work
- Own planning and prioritization for large initiatives. In partnership with leadership, estimate and manage timelines and risk, define success criteria, bring teammates along throughout the planning process, and sequence work so it can be spread efficiently across multiple people
- Guide your team through ambiguous, broadly scoped work — major refactors, new services, and other impactful changes — driving end-to-end resolution of complex problems by drawing on both established and new techniques
- Maintain strong technical proficiency. Stay highly proficient in one or more technical areas and effective across a wide range, with a deep enough understanding of your team's systems to contribute across its entire domain of ownership. Take ownership of transferring knowledge to less-experienced teammates to support scalability and reduce single points of failure
- Hold a high quality bar. Identify where code structure and architecture can be improved for testability and maintainability and bring well-formed proposals to the team. Provide thorough, constructive code review that goes beyond functionality to how code should be structured for future reliability and maintainability
- Make pragmatic trade-offs. Make sound, informed decisions about technical debt and velocity, and proactively call out when a plan must change mid-project, recommending a new approach based on current priorities
- Ensure technical documentation accounts for stability, performance, scalability, and business needs, and review your team's documents constructively without being nitpicky
- Champion AI-native engineering on your team. Ensure your engineers are adopting AI-enabled development tools (Claude Code) effectively and responsibly, in line with Pathstream's internal AI guardrails
- Coach your team on how to collaborate well with AI systems, when to use which tool, and how to evaluate AI-generated output
- Embrace change introduced by evolving technology. Partner with engineering leadership to roll out and refine AI tooling, workflows, and standards across the org, and help your team turn new capabilities into real, measurable leverage
- Stay hands-on enough to be credible. You use these tools in your own work and can speak from practical experience about what works, what doesn't, and why
- Ensure your team operates production systems well. Participate in on-call, including, with support, code outside your team's normal responsibility and use observability tooling to catch issues before they affect customers
- Partner with engineering leadership on security and compliance in your domain, including SOC2, vulnerability management, authentication systems, and the controls that protect Pathstream's enterprise customers and learners
- Translate operational pain and on-call insights into roadmap priorities and process improvements, and ensure your team maintains sound DevOps and operational practices across infrastructure, APIs, automation, and deployment pipelines
Skills
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and are highly proficient in one or more technical areas, with the range to be effective across many others
- 2+ years leading and mentoring engineers — as a team lead, technical lead, or engineering manager — and a demonstrated track record of developing engineering talent
- Owned the technical design and delivery of broadly scoped work end-to-end — a major refactor, a new service, or a comparably impactful initiative — and been independently responsible for the full delivery process in your area
- Deep understanding of scalability best practices and experience designing and implementing solutions that can handle significant growth
- Familiarity with modern web application stacks similar to ours: Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS
- Understand infrastructure automation, platform security, and DevOps practices, and you are comfortable with the discipline of operating production systems that hold customer data
- Hands-on with modern AI-enabled development tools and agentic engineering approaches and bring genuine enthusiasm and the drive to grow production experience with them quickly
- Embrace change introduced by evolving technology, set ambitious goals, and proactively seek feedback on your own areas of growth
- Practical judgment about when AI accelerates engineering work and when it introduces risk, and you can articulate that distinction to your team
- Lead through influence and trust rather than authority
- Communicate with clarity, brevity, and focus, and you are effective in crucial conversations even when they are uncomfortable
- Drive discussions with product and other stakeholders that turn ambiguous problem statements into clear engineering requirements
- Comfortable operating in environments with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and you bring a proactive, data-informed approach to decision-making even when perfect information is unavailable
- Bring others along rather than working in a silo
- Practical experience with security and compliance in a SaaS environment (SOC2, vulnerability management, authentication) is a plus
Benefits
- Transparent and social culture, challenging work, fast learning cycles, practical training, and meaningful feedback
- Strong sense of ownership and strategic work that impacts our product, users, colleagues, business, and world
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and 50% for your partner/spouse and dependents
- Flexible spending account (health)
- Employee Assistance Program (mental health, financial health, legal support, and more)
- Free access to wellbeing apps like Ginger and Headspace
- Flexible paid time off and 13 paid holidays
- Generous paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability insurance (100% company paid)
- Annual professional development budget
- Company-provided laptop
- Remote-first culture
- Life insurance (100% company paid)
- Optional supplemental life insurance
- 401(k)
- Discounted pet insurance
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