Engineering Manager

greatquestion; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Health benefits

Generous PTO and learning stipend

Annual team retreats and virtualevents

Job summary

greatquestion is seeking a senior engineering leader to oversee two teams focused on the research study experience and customer interpretation tools. You will own delivery, guide technical direction, and shape engineering practices while supporting autonomous, remote-first teams.

The role combines people management, delivery ownership, and technical leadership to help ships reliable product improvements and evolve the engineering stack for faster, safer delivery.

Qualifications

• Previous engineering management experience including hiring, performance cycles, and career growth coaching.
• Strong technical background comparable to a senior engineer, with production systems experience.
• Ability to give direct, timely feedback and handle difficult people-management decisions with care.
• Sound judgment in breaking ambiguous problems into workable plans and identifying delivery risks.
• Experience with system design and evaluating proposals, estimates, and blockers.
• Practical experience using agentic coding tools with informed views on team use while maintaining quality.

Responsibilities

• Hire, staff, coach, and support engineers with regular feedback and growth plans.
• Plan, sequence, and prioritize work; manage delivery risks and coordinate with product partners.
• Maintain quality and operational health of shipped systems, including monitoring and testing.
• Develop shared components, coding conventions, CI checks, and developer experience improvements.
• Guide system design and architectural decisions, translating product priorities into work.

Skills

Engineering management

People leadership

Delivery planning

System design

Technical leadership

Hiring

Tools

CI checks

Agent workflows

Job description

Role overview

Lead two engineering teams responsible for the research study experience and the tools customers use to interpret findings. The role combines people management, delivery ownership, and technical leadership: you'll help teams ship reliable product improvements while shaping the engineering practices and tools used to build them.

Responsibilities

• Hire, staff, coach, and support engineers through regular feedback, performance management, and career growth.
• Plan and sequence team work, resolve blockers, manage delivery risks, and coordinate priorities with product partners and company leaders.
• Maintain the quality and operational health of shipped systems, including monitoring and adversarial testing.
• Develop shared components, coding conventions, CI checks, agent workflows, and developer experience that support fast, dependable delivery.
• Guide system design and architectural decisions, and turn product priorities into work that reaches customers.

Requirements

• Previous engineering management experience, including hiring, performance cycles, and helping people take on greater responsibility.
• Strong technical background comparable to a senior engineer, with experience building and operating production systems.
• Ability to give direct, timely feedback and handle difficult people-management decisions with care.
• Sound judgment in breaking ambiguous problems into workable plans, spotting delivery risks, and adapting the level of process to the situation.
• Experience with system design and the ability to evaluate technical proposals, estimates, and blockers.
• Practical experience using agentic coding tools, with informed views on how teams can use them while maintaining quality.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first work with high trust and autonomy.
• Competitive compensation and equity, health benefits, generous paid time off, and a learning stipend.
• Annual team retreats and virtual events.