Remote Engineering Manager: VPN & Acquisitions

Mode Mobile, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Bonus program

Open PTO

Wellness days

Bonusly recognition

Job summary

Mode Mobile, LLC is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Lumos VPN product and guide future acquisitions from onboarding through integration and scale. You will be a player-coach, writing code early, setting architecture, and later focusing on people leadership and delivery.

You will work with product managers, corporate development, and executives to execute the strategic roadmap, build a repeatable playbook for acquisitions, and champion secure, reliable, and compliant software

Qualifications

• Must Have: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers as a people manager or hands-on tech lead/manager in an agile environment delivering consumer products to end-users.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical onboarding of acquired products from due diligence through transition and steady-state ownership.
• Assess inherited architecture, infrastructure, security, vendors, operational risks, and technical debt.
• Establish knowledge transfer and ensure critical operational knowledge is documented.
• Define and execute the transition plan with the acquired team and Mode stakeholders.
• Build and continuously improve a repeatable engineering acquisition playbook.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, and growth of engineers; drive ownership and CI/CD practices.

Job description

Mode Mobile, LLC is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Lumos VPN product and guide future acquisitions from onboarding through integration and scale. You will be a player-coach, writing code early, setting architecture, and later focusing on people leadership and delivery.

You will work with product managers, corporate development, and executives to execute the strategic roadmap, build a repeatable playbook for acquisitions, and champion secure, reliable, and compliant software