Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LINQ is a high-growth software company dedicated to empowering K-12 district teams with innovative cloud-based solutions. The Engineering Manager will lead engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, focusing on operational excellence and team development.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers across a blended FTE/contractor model — running meaningful 1:1s, writing growth plans, managing performance honestly, and giving direct, kind, actionable feedback
- Own delivery outcomes for your team’s product area — partnering with Product to shape the work, not just receive it, and driving predictable, high-quality execution
- Partner with the Sr. Director of Engineering and your engineers to shape and execute the technical roadmap — balancing new product capabilities, infrastructure modernization, and platform reliability
- Keep operational excellence front and center — system reliability, data integrity, and graceful handling of third-party dependencies are baseline expectations, not stretch goals
- Raise the hiring bar and own the hiring loop for your team — sourcing, interview calibration, and closing talent
- Contribute as a technical leader in ADRs, design reviews, and high-stakes code reviews; weigh in on tradeoffs with enough depth that your technical voice genuinely sharpens the work
- Drive healthy engineering practices — testing discipline, CI/CD, DORA/flow metrics, and incident response — using evidence to guide improvement rather than opinion alone
- Enable the team to adopt AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code) effectively and responsibly, modeling the practices yourself
- Cultivate a culture where engineers are confident to change code — when people are afraid to touch something, we move slowly and we break things
- Communicate up, across, and down clearly in writing — roadmaps, status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions
Skills
- 3+ years managing software engineering teams, with a track record of shipping production software at quality
- Experience managing mixed FTE and contractor teams — with a clear sense of where those management approaches converge and diverge
- Strong technical background in Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript service development; you've shipped real systems and are sharp enough to contribute credibly in design and code reviews
- Comfort with Angular or a close-adjacent modern front-end framework
- Hands-on experience leading teams that build integration-heavy systems where data accuracy and reliability with external systems are core concerns
- Evidence-based management approach — familiar with DORA, SPACE, or equivalent frameworks, and honest about their limits
- Production experience working in AWS environments; comfortable reasoning about container-based deployment (ECS/EKS), serverless services, and managed databases
- Experience leading teams through infrastructure modernization (e.g., containerization migrations) without disrupting delivery
- Hands-on user of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted coding environments
- Able to coach a team on effective, responsible use of AI tooling — and honest about where it works and where it doesn't
- Coaching-first instinct — you default to asking before telling, and help people think clearly rather than thinking for them
- Direct communicator — you can challenge respectfully, escalate clearly, and write a crisp exec update
- Fluent in Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
- Experience in K-12 EdTech, SaaS, or other mission-driven software environments
- Background managing teams that operate high-reliability, high-transaction-volume systems
- Experience running blended onshore/offshore or FTE/contractor engineering teams at scale
- Experience splitting or merging teams as organizational scope evolves
- Contributions to engineering excellence programs, management communities of practice, or internal leadership development
Benefits
- Our 401(k) plan comes with a 4% employer match on total earnings (not just your base salary).
- Whether it’s a company bonus or target sales commission, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.
- Our flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan lets you take the time you need, when you need it.
- Paid Parental Leave: Take the time you need to welcome your new addition – We’ve got you covered!
- Ten Paid Corporate Holidays: Enjoy a little extra downtime to relax and recharge with the ten paid holidays each year.
- 16 paid volunteer hours to support the causes that matter most to you. #LINQCares
- Rock-solid medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Pick your vibe: a low deductible PPO and pair with an FSA or a HDHP with a sweet HSA – with contributions from LINQ.
- Dental perks that even cover braces for the kiddos.
- Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance.
- Gym reimbursements.
- Tons of extra savings on travel assistance, employee assistance, and even pet insurance options.
- Got an amazing candidate in your network? Send them our way and earn a referral bonus when they join the team!
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