Engineering Manager

Accountabilities: You will own the people operations and staffing strategy for the engineering team, ensuring employees receive consistent guidance, development opportunities, and appropriate support while meeting organizational workforce needs. Your responsibilities will include: Directly manage an initial team of seven engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, goal setting, constructive feedback, coaching, and individualized development plans. Lead performance reviews, evaluation calibration, and fair assessments based on the established engineering career and leveling framework. Identify and address performance concerns promptly, working with HR when necessary to ensure appropriate and consistent outcomes. Partner with senior leadership on compensation and career progression decisions, then manage their communication, documentation, and implementation in accordance with company policies. Build and maintain a respectful, remote-first team culture that supports engagement, collaboration, and professional growth. Monitor workload, employee wellbeing, burnout risks, retention, and career-development needs, taking action before issues escalate. Develop current and future staffing plans across internal projects and client engagements, considering employee skills, experience levels, assignments, availability, allocation, and expected project transitions. Balance utilization and business requirements with individual development, workload, and employee wellbeing. Resolve staffing conflicts in collaboration with project, delivery, and engineering-domain leaders. Forecast capacity requirements, recruitment needs, available resources, bench time, and key-person dependencies, communicating potential risks and recommendations to senior leadership. Collaborate with HR and recruiting teams to define roles, manage recruitment requests, structure interviews, support hiring decisions, and coordinate onboarding. Establish consistent employee evaluation, mentorship, and development practices across the engineering organization. Maintain accurate headcount and personnel records while reporting key workforce metrics, including utilization, staffing forecasts, attrition, hiring progress, and development activity. Improve people-management and staffing processes through documented workflows, effective communication, and appropriate management tools. Handle confidential employee information responsibly and maintain discretion in sensitive personnel matters. Requirements The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering or technical delivery, combined with proven experience managing engineers and overseeing workforce planning. You should be confident handling sensitive personnel matters, developing technical talent, and coordinating staffing across multiple projects. Candidates should demonstrate: At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or technical delivery. A minimum of 3 years of direct engineering-management experience, including responsibility for hiring, performance reviews, coaching, and personnel decisions. Demonstrated success staffing engineers across multiple simultaneous projects or client engagements. Experience managing resource allocation, capacity planning, utilization, or comparable workforce-planning metrics. Experience leading structured performance reviews and calibration processes using an established engineering career or leveling framework. Sufficient technical knowledge of modern software development and cloud environments to assess engineering skills, workloads, and staffing risks credibly. The ability to develop engineers, support career progression, and implement effective retention and mentorship initiatives. Strong judgment and experience navigating difficult performance conversations and sensitive employee situations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed engineering, HR, and business teams. Strong organizational, forecasting, and workforce-planning capabilities. The ability to balance employee needs with business priorities and make thoughtful, consistent staffing decisions. Preferred qualifications and skills: Experience managing engineering teams in technology consulting, professional services, or organizations that allocate technical professionals across multiple client engagements. Experience supporting organizational change, employee development, mentorship, or retention programs. Background in mortgage technology, financial services, or another regulated-industry technology environment. Familiarity with resource and capacity-management platforms such as Float, Kantata, Jira, or comparable tools. Formal training or certification in engineering management, coaching, or leadership development. Benefits Full-time W2 employment; this is not a contract or 1099 position. Remote-first work environment with flexible arrangements. Regular collaboration across different time zones. Opportunity to lead and develop an initial team of seven engineers. Travel of up to 10% may be required based on business needs.