Senior Engineering Manager

Axios is seeking a remote Senior Engineering Manager to join their media engineering team. The company is dedicated to delivering trustworthy news content in an audience-first format and is undergoing a transformation strategy to modernize their tech stack and deployment processes. The Senior Engineering Manager will play a crucial role in supporting individual engineers, facilitating cross-functional teams, onboarding and managing a diverse team, creating efficient processes, and maintaining a balanced work culture. Ideal candidates should have experience leading engineering teams, a strong understanding of software development, and excellent communication skills. The role offers competitive salary, health insurance, paid leave, 401K, generous vacation policy, and a commitment to an open and inclusive work culture.

• Directly support individual engineers through 1:1s, coaching, and feedback.
• Help cross-functional teams work productively, with effective prioritization and resourcing.
• Onboard and manage a diverse team of individual contributors, and actively foster an inclusive environment.
• Create processes that help engineers focus, rather than feel impeded.
• Help maintain a culture that balances healthy urgency with the need for downtime and recuperation.
• Help facilitate a large technical migration while ensuring teams continue to deliver value to customers.

• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Understanding of how software development succeeds and fails
• Track record of treating engineers as humans, rather than fungible resources
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Ability to work in a remote environment
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• 401K
• Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
• Commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Additional pandemic-related benefits: one mental health day per quarter, $100 monthly work-from-home stipend, tele-mental health services, OneMedical membership including tele-health services, increased work flexibility for parents.

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• 401K
• Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Additional pandemic-related benefits:
• One mental health day per quarter
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
• Access to the Axios "Family Fund" for financial support during hardship or emergencies
• Virtual company-sponsored social events