Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that fuels Democratic victories and enables progressive causes to thrive. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control (AAA) team, managing software engineers to ensure seamless login and navigation across ActBlue's product suite while aligning with organizational goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of software engineers working on ActBlue’s unified authentication and authorization framework to enable seamless login and navigation across our suite of products, ensure best-in-class security, protect donor and entity trust, grow our express universe, and modernize our tech stack
• Support the professional development of your direct reports with supportive and constructive feedback, goal-setting, regular check-ins, and performance reviews
• Work with engineers, product managers, and UX leads to formulate roadmaps that align with our strategic organizational goals. Collaborate on an ongoing basis to achieve them
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (internal operational teams, security and platform engineering, CX, Sales, etc.) to ensure alignment on product direction, gather domain expertise, and communicate progress and risks effectively
• Ensure your team delivers on their roadmap and achieves the target strategic outcomes of their work in a high-stakes, regulated environment where precision and reliability are critical
• Enable your team to learn fast while consistently delivering value by prioritizing frequent delivery of small iterations of work
• Drive essential communication between teams to ensure timely, high-quality results that further organizational goals. Resolve blockers and proactively escalate concerns
• Consistently provide your team with the context and resources they need to achieve their goals
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering department's leadership to cultivate a work environment where everyone can thrive
• Facilitate technical decision-making with an emphasis on security, maintainability, scalability, and performance, ensuring that complex workflows align with best practices, software development methodologies, and coding standards
• Oversee the end-to-end software development process while championing a user-centric approach to iterating and improving on product features
• Promote strong and transparent communication channels both internally and with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization

Requirements:

• People management experience: 3-5+ years of experience supporting a team of individual contributors at multiple levels, fostering their professional development, and enhancing team performance
• Experience building user-centric engineering products
• Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos
• Experience helping teams optimize their collaborations and results using regular feedback loops, retrospectives, experimentation, and iteration
• Strong understanding of and experience with industry best practices for managing software development, particularly agile processes and roles/responsibilities
• Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and consensus across teams and stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with a team-centric and remote-reliant approach to discussion and collaboration
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, and fostering a strong sense of belonging on teams
• Experience providing project management and organizational support on complex technical projects from end to end that deliver timely and effective results
• A successful track record with recruiting, retaining, and growing engineering teams
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the desire to cultivate this in your team
• Experience with auth0 or other authentication systems
• A background in security, identity, and access control for software products
• Previous experience in payments, B2B, and/or two-sided marketplaces
• Previous experience working with Ruby on Rails and/or React