Job Summary

Codal is searching for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to perform various architectural tasks and provide technical leadership. You'll lead a squad of engineers through the complexities of modern backend development, and ensure that our frontend experiences are supported by high- performance APIs, secure data modeling, and optimized cloud infrastructure. Your "superpower" should be building robust, scalable server-side environments that power high-traffic enterprise applications.

To ensure success, you should have extensive experience with designing architectures and web applications, ensuring the team delivers robust, scalable and secure solutions.
This role involves hands-on coding along with a team of 4-5 engineers, maintaining high quality and standards across the full stack to deliver high-performance technologies.

Who You'll Be Working With
You'll work as a Senior Engineering Manager alongside client stakeholders, project managers, designers and engineering teams to guide projects from early discovery through delivery. You'll be a key technical point of contact, helping clients and internal teams align on approach and execution while ensuring solutions are practical, scalable, and well-built.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend or full-stack with backend heavy development, leading technical delivery.
• Must have active hands-on experience alongside a leading team of engineers and be comfortable leading a team of 5 or more engineers
• Strong experience with Node.js, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and modern frontend & CMS frameworks.
• Expertise in software architecture, database systems (BigQuery/SQL/NoSQL), and cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with containerized tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to design and explain system architecture for complex web and cloud-based applications.
• Experience working directly with clients or stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Solid understanding of databases including SQL, NoSQL and analytics platforms like BigQuery.
• A strong track record of guiding teams through complex technical challenges and successful project delivery.
• Comfortable mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and establishing and maintaining high standards of code quality, performance, and security across all project deliverables.
• Good track record in terms of finding slow code & vulnerabilities during code review
• Demonstrated ability in delivery, scalability, and solve complex technical challenges within enterprise level projects
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Need another reason to hit the "apply" button?

• Codal is a global agency with over 200 employees, and offices in the US, Canada, the UK, and India
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work
• Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water
• We offer Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types
• Employer 401k match - 4%
• A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball
• An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities
• Working hybrid for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days

We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include but aren't limited to, a candidate's experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position

Pay range

$200,000-$250,000 USD

Note: Codal only communicates with candidates through official @codal.com email addresses. We never request payment during the hiring process. Please be vigilant regarding recruitment scams.