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Your role will be crucial in bringing structure and momentum to a growing team while staying hands-on in the code.\nResponsibilities\nLead a team of engineers in building and maintaining a scalable and efficient platform for device passporting.\n\nPartner closely with the Product Manager to develop and execute a vision for the team and align with company goals.\n\nDevelop and maintain a well-groomed backlog, own sprint commitments, and ensure the team consistently delivers against its roadmap.\n\nRecruit, interview, and onboard engineers; build a team culture defined by ownership, craft, and psychological safety.\n\nMentor engineers at every level through regular one-on-ones, career development conversations, goal-setting, and performance feedback.\n\nServe as the primary escalation point for cross-team dependencies, blockers, and coordination with other pods.\n\nTranslate technical complexity into clear updates for product and leadership stakeholders.\n\nSpend approximately 40% of your time as an individual contributor writing production Python code, reviewing pull requests with substantive technical feedback, and pairing with engineers on hard problems.\n\nLead by example in code quality, testing discipline, and documentation standards.\n\nContribute to architectural decisions and technical design reviews, ensuring the team's technical direction is sound and well-documented.\n\nOwn specific features or integration modules within the Device Passport platform.\n\nRequirements\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead role.\n\nHands-on Python proficiency, with experience in writing production code and doing real code review.\n\nStrong PostgreSQL and SQL experience; comfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent).\n\nProven track record of shipping software on time with a distributed, cross-functional team.\n\nExperience with agile delivery, including sprint planning, backlog management, velocity tracking, and retrospectives.\n\nDemonstrated ability to give direct, constructive performance feedback and support engineers' career growth.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills; ability to represent engineering clearly to product, operations, and leadership audiences.\n\nHigh empathy, low ego, with a focus on team success rather than individual achievement.\n\nFamiliarity with enterprise integration patterns and API-based platform products serving multiple external partners simultaneously.\n\nExposure to warehouse automation, device lifecycle, or supply chain software is a plus.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2872,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Transportation & Logistics","Supply Chain","Data Entry & Processing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T09:48:43Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/apkudo-engineering-manager-device-passport","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/apkudo-engineering-manager-device-passport.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T04:00:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2387,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2613,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}