Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Axios is a growth-focused media company dedicated to helping people get smarter, faster on what matters. As an Engineering Manager, you'll shape both the technical direction and execution of our platforms, leading a team of engineers while contributing directly to the technical work.
Responsibilities
- Stay close to the code and architecture. Contribute directly when it unblocks the team, resolves complexity, or accelerates a critical path – not to gatekeep
- Drive high-quality, timely delivery by making decisions quickly, clearing obstacles, and ensuring the team has what they need to ship without waiting on you
- Coach engineers through direct 1:1 feedback, career guidance, and hands-on pairing. Raise the bar on ownership so the team increasingly solves problems without escalation
- Partner with Product, Design, and stakeholders to bring clarity to priorities and translate them into effective execution. Be the person who makes alignment easy, not another layer of indirection
- Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, testing, and system reliability to ensure maintainable and scalable systems
- Leverage and evolve agentic workflows and AI-assisted development practices to improve team productivity, accelerate delivery, and enhance engineering quality
- Protect the team's time. Say no to low-value work, reduce ambiguity, and keep everyone pointed at what actually moves the business forward
- Identify and remove blockers, improve team processes, and continuously increase velocity, ownership, and effectiveness
Skills
- 3–7 years of experience leading engineering teams, with a strong background in backend or full-stack web development
- A strong engineering foundation. You can contribute meaningfully to production code, not just review or direct it. Your technical credibility earns trust
- Player-coach instincts. Leadership through context, not contribution. You lead by staying close to the work, and understand the technical landscape, anticipating friction, and equip the team to move fast
- An unblocker mindset with product instinct. You default to enabling autonomy, make decisions visible, and share context proactively. You think like a product partner, identifying the highest-impact work and connecting engineering effort to business outcomes
- AI fluency. You actively use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows, and you push the team to do the same
- System design judgment. You make pragmatic architectural calls that balance speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
- Coaching that raises the bar. You help engineers grow through honest feedback, high standards, and increasing responsibility
- Clear, decisive communication. You simplify complex problems, make tradeoffs explicit, and keep teams and stakeholders aligned without overcomplicating things
- Experience coaching engineers through the transition from IC to tech lead, or from mid-level to senior
- Experience leading in a pod or squad model where your team owns a surface area end-to-end and you're accountable for outcomes, not just execution
- Familiarity with content platforms, API-driven architectures, or consumer-facing systems that operate at scale
- Proven track record of taking ideas to delivery using the PDLC and user testing
Benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Birth-givers will have an additional 6-8 weeks depending on type of delivery, for a total of 18-20 weeks continuous leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
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