Engineering Manager
Cocoon
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- $215,000 salary plus equity
- Early engineering leadership role
- Need to balance speed with scalable system design
- Responsible for both technical and people leadership
- Company-wide commitment to DEIB
- Unlimited vacation and sick time
Role overview
We're building Cocoon, a platform that simplifies the complex world of employee leave for both workers and employers. After talking to hundreds of employees and employers, we're on a mission to remove friction from leave processes for parental, medical, bereavement, and other reasons—replacing nightmares with delight. As an early engineering leader, you'll own building and scaling our customer-facing leave platform while shaping how the company operates, hires, and scales. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with team building and strategic company shaping.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team building and scaling our customer-facing leave platform — owning both the people and the technical side of that work
- Set a high bar for engineering quality, make thoughtful architectural decisions, and actively develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations
- Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Legal to turn genuinely complex policy and compliance requirements into a leave experience that feels simple and reliable for employees and employers alike
- Bring clarity to hard problems — translating ambiguity into well-scoped work your team can execute with confidence
- Shape how the company operates, how we hire, and how we scale — as one of our early engineering leaders
- Identify, hire, and retain strong engineering talent, including through performance management and coaching
- Provide candid, constructive feedback while mentoring others and fostering an inclusive environment
- Balance speed of execution while advocating for the right time to slow down to design robust, scalable systems
Requirements
- Have led or managed an engineering team working on customer facing product experiences
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity to complex or evolving problems
- Have experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
- Have experience making thoughtful technical tradeoffs, writing and reviewing code, and providing system-level guidance to engineering teams
- Are committed to raising the bar for quality, reliability, and availability
- Debate without ego and enjoy thinking from first principles, questioning assumptions, and continuously improving how things are built
- Prioritize engineering while building the right product and a strong company culture
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage
- Unlimited vacation and sick time
- Professional development budget
- Office setup and wellness stipends
- Company sponsored offsites & more!
Additional details
- The salary for this role is $215,000 and equity is part of the total package
- At Cocoon, we believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) serve as the foundation for a successful team, product, and community
- We're committed to building a company where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and be set up for success
- Creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce requires ongoing effort and attention
- Cocoon is aware of fraudulent job offers circulating online from individuals impersonating our company
- All legitimate openings are posted on Cocoon - Careers
- We will never request payment, gift cards, or sensitive financial information at any stage of our hiring process
- Official recruiter communications will only come from email addresses
- Originally posted on Himalayas