HarperCollins Christian Publishing · 14 hours ago
Engineering Manager (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$150K/yr - $175K/yr
8+ years expHarperCollins Christian Publishing is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. The Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a cross-functional engineering team while also contributing technically to ensure high delivery outcomes and platform reliability.
ContentInformation ServicesPublishing
Responsibilities
Own delivery outcomes: planning, estimation, scope negotiation, sequencing, dependency management, and risk mitigation
Partner with Product/Design/Stakeholders to translate priorities into executable plans and clear milestones
Run or improve agile ceremonies and team rituals; drive continuous improvement in throughput and predictability
Manage and coach engineers across disciplines (web, app, QA, systems), including goal-setting, feedback, and performance reviews
Develop career growth plans and ensure the team has clarity on expectations, roles, and ways of working
Support hiring, onboarding, and team structure decisions to match roadmap needs
Communicate status, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to technical and non-technical partners
Align with Security/IT as needed on access, compliance, security, and best practices
Contribute production code as needed across key services/applications (e.g., complex features, integrations, performance work, tooling)
Jump in to unblock the team: debugging, spike/prototype work, targeted refactors, and closing priority gaps
Set and model engineering standards through real participation: code reviews, testing practices, documentation, and operational readiness
Partner with the Engineering Lead on architecture decisions; ensure consistency across systems and components
Determine where best to deploy AI and other modern tooling
Drive a strong quality culture with QA and engineering: test strategy, automation, release criteria, defect triage, and regression control
Partner with infrastructure engineer to ensure reliable environments, monitoring, incident response, and postmortems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading teams (people management). Experience managing mixed teams (web, app, QA, systems) a plus
Experience delivering customer-facing web and/or application products with a strong SDLC discipline
Proven track record improving engineering processes (delivery predictability, quality, reliability)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience)
Strong technical judgment: can dive deep when needed, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and keep systems maintainable
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, observability, incident management, and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, and system architectures
Preferred
Familiarity with the Bible a plus, but not a requirement
Experience with Laravel, WordPress, and Drupal a plus
Knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda) a plus
Benefits
A comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package
A variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits
"elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce
Company
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
HarperCollins Christian Publishing is an inspirational content publishing company.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
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