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139 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Engineering managers lead a team of software engineers and are accountable for what that team delivers and how its people develop. The job combines hiring, performance feedback and career growth with planning, prioritization and delivery commitments. Most no longer write much code but still need enough technical depth to weigh design tradeoffs and challenge estimates.

About the Engineering Manager role

What the work looks like

  • Hold weekly one-on-ones with each engineer covering workload, feedback, career goals and anything blocking progress.
  • Plan quarters and sprints with the product manager, trading scope against team capacity and technical debt.
  • Run hiring for the team: define the role, interview candidates and make the final hiring recommendation.
  • Write performance reviews and make the case for promotions and compensation changes in calibration sessions.
  • Review design documents and incident reports, pushing on risk and tradeoffs without dictating the solution.

What employers ask for

  • Prior experience as a software engineer
  • People management, coaching and performance reviews
  • Agile planning and delivery tracking in Jira
  • System design and architecture review
  • Hiring and structured interviewing
  • Stakeholder communication with product and leadership

Doing this job remotely

Managing remotely means replacing what an office shows for free: one-on-ones, written status and deliberate team rituals carry the load. Spotting a struggling engineer or a brewing conflict is harder over video, so managers have to ask directly. Teams spread across time zones need a manager who protects overlap hours and keeps decisions written down.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Engineering managers are almost always former senior engineers or tech leads who moved into people leadership. The next steps are senior engineering manager and director of engineering, with some returning to a staff engineer track instead.