Remote Engineering Manager, AI Grants Engine Leader

Child Poverty Action Lab; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) builds tools that help public agencies and community organizations find and pursue federal and state funding. It is a small, mission-driven nonprofit with a centralized engineering team and contracted development partners, operating with startup-like ownership-driven culture.

We are seeking a senior engineering leader to own end-to-end technical delivery, drive architecture, and lead a growing team.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience on production systems.
• Proven track record of leading engineers as a team lead, engineering manager, or technical lead.
• Strong systems and architecture judgment across frontend, backend, data pipelines, and AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own technical implementation of the product roadmap end to end, from scoping through delivery.
• Partner with the Product Lead to scope features, size effort, and plan resourcing, surfacing downstream impacts and tradeoffs early.
• Own the architectural direction of both the application and the data ingestion pipeline, and set the standard for what 'done' means.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Team leadership

Architecture judgment

AWS infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Job description

Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) builds tools that help public agencies and community organizations find and pursue federal and state funding. It is a small, mission-driven nonprofit with a centralized engineering team and contracted development partners, operating with startup-like ownership-driven culture.

We are seeking a senior engineering leader to own end-to-end technical delivery, drive architecture, and lead a growing team.