Senior Engineering Manager

Location: This is a remote‑first role based in the U.S. While we embrace flexible, distributed work, we also value in‑person connection. Team members are expected to attend multiple company‑wide and team‑specific onsite events throughout the year.

We are looking for a smart and technically focused Engineering Dev Manager to join Give Campus and help us take the platform to the next level. You will be a key member of our team, making technical and staffing decisions that will shape the company’s future. As one of two Dev Managers on a growing team of 30+ Engineers, you will be responsible for managing two or more engineering pods which consist of a Tech Lead and 2-5 engineers working closely with a PM from the Product team.

You will lead the teams and help plan and deliver on the product roadmap while assisting in the professional development of the team members. You will report to the VP of Engineering and lead hiring, onboarding and performance management of your team, setting clear goals and expectations for performance and quality. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, but are hiring across the US (we are a fully remote workforce but we also believe in getting together at times in person – be that onboarding as well as company and department retreats 2-3 times a year).

Responsibilities include:

• Pod and people management – ensuring pods run smoothly with structured interactions, schedules, and clear goals. Manage growth & development, performance, onboarding, and retention, and make hard decisions for people who are not a fit.
• Act as a multiplier and unblocker to help your pods quickly build new features from start to finish, back‑end to front‑end.
• Work closely with Tech Leads and Product Managers to help define and refine projects – weigh in on architecture, work breakdown, scheduling and release planning.
• Communicate status and progress on delivery objectives to senior management.
• Support teammates in an agile development environment and help reinforce and improve our agile practices.
• Contribute to work in progress, including architecture and PR review and updating shared documentation.
• Mentor junior and mid/senior staff to help them grow in their craft.
• Drive efforts around interviewing and onboarding new team members to your pods, and assist in refining team‑wide interviewing processes.
• Contribute to team‑wide initiatives such as coding standards, technical debt refinement, and system security monitoring.
• Collaborate with the VP of Engineering and CTO on team‑wide professional development initiatives.
• Participate in platform support on a rotational basis, including pod‑based support and 24/7 on‑call rotation for incident lead support engineers.

What we are looking for:

• Have led one or more teams as both a technical lead and people manager in a fast‑paced, agile development environment.
• System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye toward scale and resilience.
• Leadership skills that balance people management and technical excellence; coach team members on technical and agile practices while weighing in on PR reviews of high‑risk code changes.
• Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, Pyramid, etc.
• Experience with modern front‑end frameworks like React and Vue.js.
• SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).
• 3+ years in a manager role and 10+ years of hands‑on development experience.

Bonus points if you have:

• Managed teams that shipped code supporting tens of thousands of users, including enterprise/business customers.
• Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and automated testing (RSpec or Minitest).
• Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar.
• Operations experience and knowledge of site reliability/speed.
• Familiarity with networking, caching, database, and how to triage performance and stability issues (ideally with Postgres or MySQL).
• Experience working on a fundraising/crowdfunding platform.
• Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product.

Equal Opportunity Statement: At Give Campus, we value diversity and we pledge to foster an environment of support, inclusivity, and learning, both on the job and throughout the application process. In this spirit, we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Give Campus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply anyways. We know confidence gaps and impostor syndrome often get in the way of connecting with incredible people, and we don't want them to prevent us from meeting you.