About the role
The Effects engineering team is building a cutting-edge platform for non-kinetic operations in support of strategic competition efforts.We’re looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead this cross-functional team.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow a team of engineers. Accelerate their performance by providing technical mentorship and insightful feedback. Provide coaching and career development.
- Contribute to the code. We think the best leaders lead by example, so you will be expected to routinely take on IC deliverables as well.
- Own the lifecycle of products, from problem discovery to ideation to prototype to production.
- Work closely with cybersecurity specialists and mission partners to prioritize work and push the business forward.
- Travel up to 20% of the time to meet with mission owners, better understand requirements, and deliver capabilities.
What we look for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience. Contributed to system design and architecture for production-grade software.
- 2+ years of leadership experience. Successfully mentored and grew peeps. Balanced high delivery velocity with empathy for the humans on the team.
- Experience building and owning features end-to-end: decomposing problems into deliverables, gathering requirements, writing and discussing RFCs, coding, writing documentation, rolling out to production, etc.
- Excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, and project ownership.
- Passionate about solving real world problems and moving fast.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
- Active U.S. Security Clearance.
What we offer
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.
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