About Certn At Certn, we’re changing how trust works with The World’s Easiest Background Check. We’ve raised $127M+, earned Deloitte Fast 50 recognition three years in a row, and we’re still only scratching the surface. Our goal is straightforward: help people move faster - into jobs, homes, and opportunities - by simplifying the path to trust. We’re not a traditional background screening company. We’re a team of curious, collaborative builders who care about solving real problems for real people. We challenge each other, move fast, and have fun doing it. If you want to grow, make an impact, and help shape products used by millions, this is your place. Let’s build what’s next, together. About the Role The Manager, Engineering will be accountable for leading and scaling high-performing software development teams, with a focus on delivering robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions. This role combines technical leadership and people management, ensuring alignment between engineering execution and strategic business objectives. Acting as both a coach and a contributor, the Manager oversees the full software development lifecycle—from planning and architecture to deployment and support—ensuring that best practices, technical excellence, and continuous improvement are core to the team's culture. They play a critical role in shaping and implementing technical direction, mentoring developers, managing team health, and removing obstacles to team delivery. In collaboration with Engineering leadership, Product Management, and cross-functional stakeholders, this role ensures that engineering efforts are well-prioritized, resourced appropriately, and executed effectively to meet business needs. The Manager, Engineering cultivates an environment that promotes innovation, accountability, and sustainable growth. Key Responsibilities People Leadership Coach, mentor, and support the professional growth of engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and development planning — to build a strong, engaged team with clear growth paths. Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-trust team culture that supports psychological safety and team health — ensuring individuals feel empowered to contribute, take risks, and innovate. Drive team engagement, morale, and alignment by clarifying roles, setting expectations, and celebrating wins — resulting in high retention and consistent team performance. Project and Delivery Management Lead roadmap execution and sprint delivery by managing planning cycles, prioritizing effectively, and ensuring clear ownership — enabling predictable, high-quality output that aligns with business objectives. Proactively remove delivery blockers and escalate risks or trade-offs — ensuring teams remain focused and timelines remain realistic, without compromising product quality. Coordinate closely with cross-functional peers (e.g., Product, Design, other Engineering teams) to manage dependencies and foster alignment — ensuring a cohesive and effective product development process. Development Practices and Automation Provide technical guidance and oversight on architectural decisions, design reviews, and system evolution — ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable. Champion modern engineering practices (e.g., test automation, observability, CI/CD, documentation) — driving efficiency, code quality, and developer experience. Invest in continuous improvement of tooling and workflows — accelerating feedback loops and reducing friction in the development lifecycle. Promote a culture of technical excellence and shared ownership — resulting in a resilient codebase and a team that takes pride in its work. Hands-on Technical Contribution Actively contribute to codebases when necessary — providing technical leadership by example, and unblocking or accelerating key initiatives. Engage in high-leverage activities such as prototyping, fixing complex bugs, or reviewing critical code — helping the team deliver higher quality with greater confidence. Maintain technical fluency in the team’s primary stacks (e.g., Python/Django/DRF, React/TypeScript) — to offer credible guidance and ensure architectural coherence across the product. Key Qualifications Strong background in software development, preferably with experience in modern programming languages like Python, or JavaScript. Skills working in cloud environments, with knowledge of infrastructure as code being a plus. Experience working with Azure Experience leading a team of software engineers or other technical professionals. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and handle ongoing changes. Experience working in an agile, CI/CD development environment. Bonus Points Experience with Python + Django, Typescript + React/React Native AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD. .NET experience Prior startup experience Prior experience hiring and developing high-performing development teams. If you meet most, but not all, of the qualifications listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We recognize that strong candidates come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the diversity of perspectives that brings. Our Culture Certn is a remote-first company with a high-performance edge. We value hustle, hunger, and helping each other win - but we also have a strict no-jerk policy. Ambition here is about lifting people up, not stepping on toes. We think like owners and execute with urgency. We’re customer-obsessed and always learning. We give real feedback and hold each other to high standards. What’s in it for you? 32 days of paid time off per year Company-paid benefits that start on day 1 Remote-friendly and supportive flexible remote arrangements Work-from-home allowance Professional development budget And a few more goodies! Come As You Are We’re committed to building a workplace that’s diverse, inclusive, and empowering for all. If you need accommodations to support any special needs at any stage of the recruitment process, just let us know - we’ve got you. One Last Thing… Just so you know, the selected candidate will be required to complete a background check. This means you will get to see first hand what we do, and trust us, we do it REALLY well! How We Hire We use AI tools to support our recruitment process, including helping us organize applications and identify early matches based on role criteria. That said, every rejection decision is made by a human. We encourage candidates to apply authentically and avoid relying solely on AI-generated responses, especially during interviews. This posting is for a current, open position within Certn. This opportunity is offered through HighlightTA, the on-demand talent team supporting Certn’s growth. Connect with us and learn more: Certn on LinkedIn HighlightTA on LinkedIn