Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Prokeep is a cutting-edge distributor revenue and relationship engine on a mission to empower distributors to win. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of engineers, guiding technical decisions and ensuring high-quality feature delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, responsible for their output, technical decisions, career development, and priorities
- Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions
- Work closely with other engineering leaders, product management, design, and customer success to deliver against the roadmap
- Act as a real-time product manager for in-flight work — clarifying requirements, removing ambiguity, and making scoping decisions to keep the team moving. Own team execution end-to-end — from planning and prioritization through delivery, ensuring commitments are met and blockers are resolved quickly
- Own support escalations and work closely with customer success to triage, prioritize, and resolve production issues efficiently
- Responsible for the on-time, high quality features developed by the team, using scope and creative problem-solving to find the best paths to delivery
- Own testing results and quality gates, partnering with DevOps to maintain and improve build pipelines and CI/CD processes. Drive a culture of code quality, testing, and engineering best practices across the team
- Continuously measure and improve against the team's KPIs, ensuring the team doesn't simply deliver, but grows
- Own the team's delivery health — tracking cycle time, WIP, and velocity to identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and building out the engineering team as Prokeep scales
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations with direct reports
Skills
- 3-5+ years of experience leading engineering teams within SaaS software companies, including direct management of engineers at varying levels of seniority
- Demonstrated track record of developing talent and retaining high performers
- Working knowledge of at least one area of our stack: Elixir, React, React Native, or AWS
- Hands-on experience leading Agile or Kanban/Lean sprint teams, with measurable improvements in velocity, quality, or delivery timelines
- Experience scoping, planning, and shipping software at a consistent cadence, including building and refining the processes that support it
- Ability to set clear goals and expectations for teams and individuals, track progress, and course-correct when needed
- Experience managing projects end-to-end in ambiguous or fast-moving environments where priorities shift
- Strong communicator with experience translating technical context for non-technical stakeholders and advocating for engineering needs cross-functionally
- Familiarity with instrumentation, observability, and tooling practices that support engineering team performance and continuous improvement
- Comfort operating in a startup or high-growth environment where structure is still being built
Benefits
- Equity Package: Your success is our success—share in the growth you’ll help create.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, vision, life, short & long-term disability, 401(k), and employee assistance program (EAP).
- Flexible PTO: Recharge and refocus with the flexibility to manage your time with no preset limits
- Remote & Hybrid Work: Work from home from any US location outside of CA, or hybrid from one of our offices in New Orleans or Portland
- Continuous Growth: Yearly education stipend to support your professional development.
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