Engineering Manager (Autofill & Desktop Native)
About The Position
As the Engineering Manager for the Autofill and Desktop Native teams at Bitwarden, you will lead two teams of talented engineers responsible for some of the most user-facing and technically demanding parts of our product. The Autofill team owns browser autofill and form detection, including the inline menu, context menu, in-browser notifications, and passkey prompts in the browser extension. The Desktop Native team owns desktop autofill and native OS integrations including the SSH agent, Autotype, native passkeys, and the DuckDuckGo integration. These are high-visibility, high-complexity areas. Autofill must work reliably across an enormous variety of websites built with wildly different markup and form patterns, while maintaining the strict security boundaries required when handling sensitive credential data. Your engineers work at the intersection of browser security, DOM behavior, OS-level APIs, and cross-platform native development, and when something doesn't work, your users notice immediately. This role requires a manager who can hold technical complexity in one hand and customer empathy in the other. Both teams are part of the Feature Engineering group. You will report to the Feature Group Lead. This is an all-remote team and we are looking for someone located in the U.S. We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.
Requirements
- Ability to inspire and provide vision direction
- Proven experience leading engineering teams, with hands-on involvement in front-end platform initiatives
- Propensity towards leadership and mentoring
- Ability to form good relationships with other leaders in the company
- A strong sense of empathy and the ability to advocate for others
- Collaborative and adaptable mindset
- Openness and authenticity combined with excellent communication skills
- Strength in evaluating the success of Bitwarden in reaching its goals and ensuring each strategic goal is measurable
- Excellent problem-solving skills – you might not know all the answers, but you know how to find and communicate the solution
- Technical background that enables meaningful engagement with engineers working across browser extensions, native desktop, or similar client-side domains
- Comfortable reading and reasoning about TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust, or similar; hands-on development experience a plus
- Proficiency with Git and modern software delivery practices
Nice To Haves
- User of Bitwarden
- Startup experience
- Open source experience
- Hands-on software development experience
- Experience leading cross-functional, multi-discipline teams
Responsibilities
- Hire, develop, and retain a strong team of engineers across browser autofill and desktop native domains
- Set and report on measurable goals and objectives for both teams
- Facilitate team ceremonies including weekly syncs, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and sprint planning
- Monitor in-flight work to identify blocked items, proactively drive resolution, and provide contextual updates outside of the team to the rest of the organization
- Own escalation and triage for production issues, community-reported bugs, and enterprise customer escalations related to autofill behavior and desktop integrations
- Serve as a calm, informed, and empathetic voice in customer-facing and community interactions, helping users understand what's hard about autofill and why, while advocating internally for fixes and improvements that matter most
- Maintain a healthy, sprint-ready backlog by prioritizing bugs and tech debt alongside feature work and ensuring all items are well-defined with accurate descriptions, technical breakdowns, and designs prior to refinement
- Serve as the primary liaison between your engineers teams and Design, Product, Architecture, and other engineering teams, fielding cross-functional questions and maintaining alignment on priorities
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to synthesize requests into prioritized, actionable work
- Continuously identify friction points in team processes and develop solutions to improve efficiency, quality, and developer experience
- Create an inclusive environment where teamwork and collaboration are valued
- Conduct regular 1:1s, develop individualized performance goals and growth plans, and identify stretch opportunities to support each engineer's career progression
- Perform annual or semi-annual performance reviews when required
Benefits
- See our careers page for a list of benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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