Engineering Manager

Honeydew

7d•Remote

About The Position

Honeydew is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its Operations Experience engineering team. The manager will own the team’s plans, delivery, and people—including a tech lead, engineers, and contractors—and help it ship more predictably against the company’s 2027 objectives. The role will also shape the team’s future structure, headcount, and hiring plan. In the first six months, the manager is expected to hold 1:1s with every team member by day 15; take ownership of team planning and delivery by day 60; create a written growth plan for each engineer by day 90; establish delivery baselines by day 60 and improve at least two measures—cycle time, throughput, or deployment frequency—by 20% or more by day 180 while meeting quarterly roadmap commitments; inventory planned operations projects and needed capacity by day 120; and write a team vision covering structure, headcount, and hiring by day 180. The manager will lead and develop the team, own delivery and participate in agile ceremonies and operations feature planning and design, surface risks and tradeoffs early, collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Product and Engineering leadership, and plan the team’s growth through 2027. Honeydew describes the role as fully remote and offers competitive pay, equity, health benefits, employee perks, and recognition programs.

Requirements

Proven people-management skills, including direct feedback, performance management of underperformance, and developing engineers across seniority levels and employment models.
Ability to translate priorities into plans, own delivery, keep a team shipping predictably, and surface risks and tradeoffs early.
Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and verticals to drive results.
Technical depth sufficient to understand systems, evaluate tradeoffs in technical plans, maintain a quality bar, and earn senior engineers’ respect.

Nice To Haves

At least 3 years of experience managing an engineering team.
Experience with React, Node, AWS, and SQL.
Player-coach mentality and willingness to code.

Responsibilities

Manage the Operations Experience engineering team, including contractors, through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, performance management, and professional development.
Own team plans, delivery, efforts, and outputs; participate in agile ceremonies and operations feature planning and design sessions.
Keep the team shipping predictably, surface risks and tradeoffs early, and meet quarterly roadmap commitments.
Establish baseline cycle time, throughput, and deployment frequency, then improve at least two measures by 20% or more by day 180.
Partner with other Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Product and Engineering leadership on feature plans and execution.
Inventory planned operations projects and required capacity, and develop a written vision for team structure, headcount, and hiring through 2027.
Create a written growth plan for each engineer by day 90.