Manager, Engineering

• Manage, mentor, and coach engineers, building a healthy, inclusive team where people enjoy the work and feel they’re growing. • Consolidate inputs from engineers, three PMs, and leadership into a single, prioritized backlog for the Core Portal team. • Run simple, effective planning and prioritization so everyone understands what we’re doing and why. • Improve remote communication habits so people ask questions, share context, and avoid working in isolation. • Partner closely with PMs to define roadmaps, shape requirements, and balance product priorities with technical debt and reliability. • Engage in deep technical discussions with senior engineers on architecture, tradeoffs, and systems design. • Encourage and model effective use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work, helping the team adopt and continually improve how they use tools like Claude Code. • Ensure the team’s systems are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term technical direction. • Define and track team goals, communicate progress and risks to leadership, and make Core Portal a model team within engineering. • You Might Be a Fit If You… • Have ~3–7+ years as an Engineering Manager or equivalent people leader, and previously worked as a hands-on engineer. • Have enough technical depth to engage confidently with senior engineers on architecture and complex systems. • Lead with empathy, care about people’s careers, and are comfortable being human and honest with your team. • Have run performance reviews, navigated hard feedback, and coached engineers through real growth. • Are used to partnering with PMs from idea → requirements → shipped work, and bring user and business context into technical decisions. • Have taken a team from conflicting inputs and ad-hoc work to a clear backlog and simple, effective rituals. • Enjoy improving process just enough to help people move faster, not to add bureaucracy. • Are excited about leveraging AI in engineering workflows, and either have experience with tools like Claude Code or are eager to become highly proficient with them. • Prefer rolling up your sleeves and fixing problems directly rather than waiting for someone else to own them. • Thrive in remote, startup environments. • Bonus: have experience in security, encryption, or data-protection–heavy systems. • Engineering at Kodex • We care deeply about the software we build — because our work protects real people. Kodex plays a critical role in helping major companies respond securely and transparently to sensitive data requests from law enforcement, enabling both privacy protection and public safety. • Our engineering culture is built on trust, autonomy, and technical rigor. Our engineers and managers: • Own projects end to end • Collaborate without ego • Invest in quality and velocity • Act as force-multipliers for one another • This is a place where the best idea wins, and your leadership has real impact, every day. • Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Material UI • Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL on AWS • We’re also working on cutting-edge projects using Go and AWS Nitro Enclaves to advance data security. • Equal Employment Opportunities at the Company • Kodex is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Kodex believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.