[Remote] Senior Manager, Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for the brain. As a Senior Manager, Engineering, you will manage a team of engineers responsible for the development and success of the Beacon Datastore, shaping technical direction and driving engineering standards within the organization.ResponsibilitiesCoach your direct reports to pursue opportunities that increase their impact at Beacon, and guide them through the challenges they encounter along the wayDevelop a deep understanding of the Datastore and the broader Platform product ecosystem, and actively share that context to drive continuous improvement of the team's processes and its integration with Beacon as a wholeCultivate an environment where engineers learn constantly and collaboratively, and treat setbacks as opportunities for growthAct as a steward of Beacon's engineering practices and maintain high bars for engineering quality, productivity, and accountability while motivating the team to continuously raise those bars over timeHelp your team scope and prioritize tactical week-to-week work in direct connection with Beacon's wider strategic initiativesEnsure your team's development roadmap is outcome-oriented, current, aligned with company objectives and other teams' priorities, and communicated clearly to stakeholders across BeaconOwn project management for team initiatives: defining scope, managing timelines, and setting expectations internally and externallyPartner with quality and regulatory stakeholders to ensure the team's development processes meet design control requirements without sacrificing engineering momentum, and lead the team in continuously improving how it does bothSkills4+ years directly managing mid-sized software engineering teams that have tackled big problems, and can speak to the underlying processes that drove their failures and successesDedicated to helping direct reports overcome challenges and seize opportunities that are crucial to self-growthInformation-gathering is ingrained in every aspect of your work. Your decisions incorporate feedback from stakeholders, your reports, collaborators, and historical context that you intentionally mine from the project over timeDemonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and try to impose structure at the right time - not too early or too latePainfully aware of the perils of both under- and over-planning. Have a solid handle on the planning horizon of any given project, as well as the corresponding inevitable estimation accuracy drop off over time. Work to extend that horizon as the project maturesOnce you've made a decision, communicate and follow through with it. Swiftly communicate any dynamic changes with collaborators and stakeholdersYour work empowers the decision-making abilities of your reports, collaborators, and stakeholdersHave a keen sense for the bandwidth limitations, technical debt, and non-iterative processes that drag a project down, and you've employed effective strategies for preventing/remedying these issues in the pastHands-on experience leading engineering teams under formal design controls (IEC 62304 or equivalent) and can point to concrete ways you maintained development velocity within those constraintsBenefitsEquityPTOOther benefitsCompany OverviewBeacon Biosignals is a neurotechnology company that brings precision neuroscience into clinical trials and treatments. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://beacon.bio.Company H1B SponsorshipBeacon Biosignals has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.