Senior Engineering Manager

Thorn is a nonprofit that builds technology to defend children from sexual exploitation and abuse. Its Build Team develops and supports the products and tools that industry and law enforcement partners use to fight child sexual abuse material online.

As a senior engineering manager you would lead a team of engineers working across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data systems and cloud infrastructure. You would partner with Product, UX and technical leads to shape what gets built, help the team weigh technical decisions and trade-offs, balance delivery against reliability, security, privacy and technical debt, and run hiring for the team. Day to day that means 1-1s, coaching, clear expectations and candid feedback.

Thorn wants a track record of managing and developing software engineers and shipping products that meet real user needs, a strong software engineering background across the stack, and clear written communication for a highly distributed team. The stack includes Python, TypeScript, React, Node and Express, GraphQL with Prisma and Apollo, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud and queues such as SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ and Kafka.

Pay is $150,000 to $207,000 a year. Remote-first in the United States, with occasional travel for company gatherings and team meetups.