Engineering Manager
About the role
Engineering Manager role at Just Appraised, a YC-backed company building AI-powered software for local governments. Focus on leading full-stack engineers, delivering scalable backend and frontend features, and shaping architectural direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of Software Engineers.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to develop strong design, coding, and problem-solving skills across the team.
- Manage team health, set goals, conduct performance reviews, and support individual career development and progression.
- Partner closely with different functional teams to define and execute roadmaps that result in measurable business and customer outcomes.
- Hands-on coding for up to 20% of your weekly time, as team needs require.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, developer experience, and delivery pipelines.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with all leadership, Customer Success, and Operations to align technical initiatives with overall company strategy.
- Guide critical architectural decisions focused on scalability, performance, and maintainability across core backend and infrastructure systems.
- Champion and drive high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and overall engineering excellence.
- Contribute to technical designs and write or review code, particularly for complex or high-impact projects.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with strong proficiency in both backend (e.g., Java, Python) and frontend (e.g., React) technologies.
- 2+ years of engineering leadership experience, including successfully managing an engineering team or leading multi-quarter initiatives.
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality, user-facing product features across the full stack.
- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and system reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
- A demonstrated ability to successfully balance people leadership with significant technical contribution.
- Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to clearly bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A strong sense of ownership, a bias for action, and a commitment to leading by example and mentoring others.
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock equity plan
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Company sponsored pre-tax retirement savings program (401k)
- A flexible work environment that supports working from home
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
- Home office stipend
About Just Appraised
Just Appraised makes software for local governments.
Our goal is to empower local government employees with the tools, technology, and support they need so they can deliver exceptional service to their taxpayers and feel proud of the work they do for their communities. We contribute by building software to streamline local government tax assessors’ workflows using AI. Specifically, we streamline the change of ownership process for real estate and create more seamless ways for tax offices to communicate digitally with their taxpayers. For instance, when properties get bought and sold, local governments have to process reams of paper in order to update their systems and perform the analyses necessary to update the tax roll. Our software makes this process 10x faster and much more enjoyable for employees in the tax office to complete, and creates trust and goodwill in the minds of taxpayers.
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