Vannevar - Engineering Manager, Decision Advantage
Requirements
• Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one. • Prior experience building software for defense, national security, or intelligence use cases.
Responsibilities
• Product engineering: Lead the Decision Advantage team in designing, building, and shipping cutting-edge applications, services, and agents using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS. • Product engineering: • Customer and mission partnership: Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows. • Customer and mission partnership: • Developer and team acceleration: Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices. • Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact. • Team leadership: • Cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable software. • Cross-functional execution: • What we look for • 3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains. • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems. • Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions. • Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact. • Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings. • Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership. • Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar • Software development in AWS or other cloud services. • Willingness to travel to off-sites, team syncs, and customer sites. • U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.
Benefits
• The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $260,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training. • We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Remote friendly with WeWork access • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends • Salary top-up during military reserve duty • Fully paid parental leave • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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