Kodex is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Core Portal and Verifications teams, the central surface through which customers interact with our product. You will manage and grow a seven-person team of experienced engineers, partner closely with Product, and help define what the Engineering Manager role looks like as Kodex scales. This is an ideal role for a deeply technical, people-first leader who enjoys building structure in a startup environment, cares about career development, and wants to help shape how Kodex engineering operates.
What You'll Do
- Manage, mentor, and coach engineers, building a healthy, inclusive team where people enjoy the work and feel they’re growing.
- Consolidate inputs from seven engineers, three PMs, and leadership into a single, prioritized backlog for the Core Portal team.
- Run simple, effective planning and prioritization so everyone understands what we’re doing and why.
- Improve remote communication habits so people ask questions, share context, and avoid working in isolation.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define roadmaps, shape requirements, and balance product priorities with technical debt and reliability.
- Engage in deep technical discussions with senior engineers on architecture, tradeoffs, and systems design.
- Encourage and model effective use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work, helping the team adopt and continually improve how they use tools like Claude Code.
- Ensure the team’s systems are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term technical direction.
- Define and track team goals, communicate progress and risks to leadership, and make Core Portal a model team within engineering.
What We're Looking For
- 3–7+ years as an Engineering Manager or equivalent people leader, and previously worked as a hands-on engineer.
- Enough technical depth to engage confidently with senior engineers on architecture and complex systems.
- Lead with empathy, care about people’s careers, and are comfortable being human and honest with your team.
- Experience running performance reviews, navigating hard feedback, and coaching engineers through real growth.
- Used to partnering with Product Managers from idea to shipped work, and bringing user and business context into technical decisions.
- Experience taking a team from conflicting inputs and ad-hoc work to a clear backlog and simple, effective rituals.
- Enjoy improving process just enough to help people move faster, not to add bureaucracy.
- Excited about leveraging AI in engineering workflows, and either have experience with tools like Claude Code or are eager to become highly proficient with them.
- Prefer rolling up your sleeves and fixing problems directly rather than waiting for someone else to own them.
- Thrive in remote, startup environments.
Nice to Have
- Experience in security, encryption, or data-protection–heavy systems.
Technical Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Material UI
- Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL on AWS
- We’re also working on cutting-edge projects using Go and AWS Nitro Enclaves to advance data security.
Team & Environment
The Core Portal and Verifications team is currently seven people. You will lead this team and help define its structure and processes.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary Range: $170,000 - $220,000
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
Kodex is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Kodex believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
