Honeydew Engineering Manager at Honeydew leading the Operations Experience engineering team to improve delivery and shape team growth through 2027. Responsible for managing people, owning delivery plans, and partnering across the company.
Responsibilities
Honeydew's Operations Experience engineering team has more to build than it can ship today, because the person leading it is also doing the work. As Engineering Manager, you'll take ownership of the team's plans, delivery, and people — a tech lead, engineers, and contractors — so the team can ship more, predictably, against our 2027 objectives. You'll also shape what the team becomes: its structure, its headcount, and its hiring plan.
What You'll Build (Your First 6 Months) 🛠
Team ownership: 1:1s with every team member by day 15, ownership of the team's planning and delivery by day 60, and a written growth plan for each engineer by day 90
Better delivery: baseline cycle time, throughput, and deployment frequency by day 60, then improve at least two of them by 20% or more by day 180, while hitting roadmap commitments each quarter
A vision for the team through 2027: by day 120, an inventory of planned operations projects and the capacity they need; by day 180, a written vision covering team structure, headcount, and hiring plan
How You'll Make an Impact
Lead the team. You'll manage the Operations Experience engineering team, including contractors, running regular 1:1s, giving direct feedback, and growing each person.
Own delivery. You'll own the team's plans, efforts, and outputs, take part in all agile ceremonies and the planning and design sessions for operations feature work, and keep the team shipping predictably, surfacing risks and tradeoffs early.
Partner across the company. You'll work with other Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Product and Engineering leadership on feature plans and execution.
Shape what's next. You'll plan how the team grows through 2027, from structure to hiring.
Qualification
The Non-NegotiablesThe Nice-to-HavesExperience with our tech stackPlayer coach mentalityYou'll Thrive Here IfYou give direct feedback
Required
The Non-Negotiables:
People management and hard conversations — a proven track record of giving direct feedback, managing performance (including underperformance), and growing engineers, across seniority levels and employment models, from a tech lead to contractors, with clear communication up and down
Delivery ownership — you turn priorities into a plan, keep the team shipping predictably, and surface risks and tradeoffs early, so the team is never the bottleneck
Cross functional collaboration — you can work across multiple teams and verticals to drive results
Technical depth — enough to understand our systems, judge the tradeoffs in technical plans, hold the quality bar, and earn the respect of senior engineers; you don't need to be the best coder on the team
The Nice-to-Haves:
3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
Experience with our tech stack. React, Node, AWS, SQL
Player coach mentality, willing to roll up sleeves and code
You'll Thrive Here If...
You give direct feedback, and you receive it well
You keep a team shipping without becoming its bottleneck
