Dispel is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager accountable for making high software standards real in a security-critical environment. This is a people-first, delivery-focused leadership role managing 6-12 engineers across one or two teams, owning the full management lifecycle and co-owning how engineering works at Dispel.
What You'll Do
- Own delivery health across all active work: track project status, identify blockers early, remove obstacles, and escalate risks.
- Run effective team rituals (sprint planning, retrospectives, standups, reviews) calibrated to team needs.
- Conduct regular, substantive 1:1s with every direct report.
- Own performance management end to end: develop high performers and address underperformance.
- Participate in hiring loops: source candidates, conduct interviews, calibrate, and contribute to offer decisions.
- Contribute to quarterly and multi-quarter planning by translating roadmap intentions into realistic capacity models.
- Maintain sufficient technical context to evaluate your teams' work, including reading pull requests and joining architecture discussions.
- Drive accountability for quality standards: code review practices, test coverage, documentation, and incident response.
- Partner with product and project managers to align on priorities, negotiate scope, and represent team capacity.
- Partner with other Engineering managers and VP of Engineering on team structure, headcount planning, and career leveling.
- Identify patterns across your teams (process failures, tooling friction, onboarding gaps) and drive improvements.
- Refine Dispel's hiring practices: help define the hiring bar, improve interview formats, and calibrate debriefs.
- Advocate for investments your teams need: better release pipelines, CI/CD improvements, developer tooling.
- Represent engineering credibly to non-engineering stakeholders.
- Model the culture: intellectual honesty, directness, follow-through, and genuine care for your people.
What We're Looking For
- 4 or more years managing software engineering teams of 5+ ICs in a product engineering environment.
- A prior career as a software engineer with enough depth to understand what good engineering looks like.
- Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow.
- Demonstrated track record of growing engineers' careers.
- Experience with multi-quarter planning and owning delivery commitments spanning multiple sprint cycles.
- Strong technical judgment: comfortable in architecture reviews and able to evaluate proposals critically.
- Experience managing engineers on security-critical, reliability-critical, or infrastructure-adjacent software.
- Demonstrated ability to operate remote-first and manage distributed teams.
- Strong written communication.
- US work authorization required.
Nice to Have
- Experience at a company with a security-first product or customers in regulated industries (critical infrastructure, defense, industrial control systems, financial services, healthcare).
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, FedRAMP, or IEC 62443.
Team & Environment
You will manage 6-12 engineers across one or two teams, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, and co-owning engineering-wide practices.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $158,000 – $176,000 + performance bonus and equity eligibility.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Parental leave.
- Full medical, dental, vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Health savings account.
- Remote work.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
Dispel is an equal opportunity employer.
