Engineering Manager — Remote, AI-Driven Grants Engine

Child Poverty Action Lab; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Quarterly travel to Dallas

Job summary

Child Poverty Action Lab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Grants Engine. You will own the architecture and delivery of the AI-powered grant platform, coordinating across product, contracted vendors, and internal engineers. You’ll shape technical strategy, drive quality, and mentor a growing team.

You will oversee end-to-end delivery, ensure test coverage and observability, and align features with partner commitments while maintaining a strong engineering culture and cadence.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience on production systems and a proven record of leading engineers.
• Able to read code, review PRs, debug production issues, and contribute when needed.
• Able to explain tradeoffs to non-engineers and drive architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own technical implementation of the product roadmap end to end, from scoping through delivery.
• Translate partner commitments into realistic technical plans and timelines.
• Own architecture of both the application and data ingestion pipeline and ensure cohesion.
• Extend testing and observability across the system and AI workflows.
• Define and enforce engineering practices, deployments, and monitoring.
• Recruit, onboard, and mentor engineers and shift work in-house as needed.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Pragmatic judgment

System architecture

Communication

Ownership mindset

Ambiguity handling

Tools

AWS infrastructure

CI/CD

Logging/Monitoring

ETL pipelines

Job description

Child Poverty Action Lab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Grants Engine. You will own the architecture and delivery of the AI-powered grant platform, coordinating across product, contracted vendors, and internal engineers. You’ll shape technical strategy, drive quality, and mentor a growing team.

You will oversee end-to-end delivery, ensure test coverage and observability, and align features with partner commitments while maintaining a strong engineering culture and cadence.