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Engineering Manager
Cocoon
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Key highlights
- Salary: $215,000 + equity
- Early engineering leader / team lead role
- Unlimited vacation and sick time
- Customer-facing product experience required
- Experience leading/managing an engineering team required
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity to complex problems
Role overview
Cocoon is building a customer-facing employee leave platform that simplifies the complex process of taking parental, medical, bereavement, and other types of leave. As one of the company's early engineering leaders, you will lead a team building and scaling this platform — owning both the people and technical sides of the work. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Legal to translate complex policy and compliance requirements into a simple, reliable experience for employees and employers, while also helping shape how the company operates, hires, and scales.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team building and scaling the customer-facing leave platform, owning both the people and technical side of that work
- Set a high bar for engineering quality
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions
- Actively develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations
- Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Legal to turn complex policy and compliance requirements into a leave experience that feels simple and reliable for employees and employers
- Bring clarity to hard problems by translating ambiguity into well-scoped work the team can execute with confidence
- Help shape the company — how they operate, how they hire, and how they scale
- Balance speed of execution while advocating for the right time to slow down to design robust, scalable systems
- Prioritize engineering while building the right product and a strong company culture
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 able to identify, hire, and retain strong engineering talent, including through performance management and coaching
- Care deeply about both the business and your team, and provide candid, constructive feedback while mentoring others and fostering an inclusive environment
- 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
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
- Cocoon's mission is to empower every working person to take care of the important things in life when it matters most, removing friction around employee leave for both employees and employers
- Today's leave process involves wading through government and insurance claims for parental, medical, bereavement, and other leave types
- This is an early engineering leadership role at a fast-moving company
- The salary for this role is $215,000 and equity is part of the total package
- Cocoon is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) as a foundation for a successful team, product, and community
- All legitimate openings are posted on Cocoon - Careers; Cocoon warns against fraudulent job offers and states they will never request payment, gift cards, or sensitive financial information during hiring
- Official recruiter communications will only come from @cocoon.com email addresses
- Originally posted on Himalayas