Engineering Manager

About Eightpoint

Eightpoint is an internet technology company specializing in the agile development of products and content that address real-world interests, captivating users and driving significant growth for partners. With offices in the United States and Cayman Islands, Eightpoint collaborates with partners globally on the next generation of user-centric offerings. Our growing ecosystem includes innovative products like Weather Now, a sleek app that delivers real-time forecasts with clarity and ranks among the top three most-used weather apps in the U.S.; Check Heart Rate Now, a quick and easy wellness monitor; and Wave Browser, a powerful and secure way to search the web. Every product we launch is designed to engage users, enhance daily life, and deliver real-world value. Backed by data and driven by a relentless commitment to quality, Eightpoint moves fast, thinks big, and builds digital experiences that people love.

Our innovative culture thrives on collaboration, data-driven decisions, and a startup mindset. Join our team and enjoy top-tier benefits, unlimited PTO, flexible schedules, free lunches, and the opportunity to work alongside a world-class team of professionals.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead the team building Wave Browser. This role is about building and running a high-performing engineering team: you will own delivery, grow the people on your team, and create the conditions for great engineering to happen. You’ll operate at the intersection of people leadership, execution, and technical judgment, partnering closely with product, staff engineers, and leadership to turn strategy into shipped, reliable software.

Wave Browser is built on the Chromium project; a large-scale C++ codebase with its own toolchain, build system, and upstream release cadence. Our web backend services are built across JavaScript, C#, and Go. You don’t need to be the strongest coder on the team, but you do need enough technical depth to ask the right questions, weigh tradeoffs credibly, and recognize when a shortcut today becomes a liability tomorrow. Experience managing teams working in a large-scale C++ or browser codebase is a strong plus.

What You’ll Do

People Leadership

• Hire, onboard, and retain a strong team of engineers; own the hiring bar for your team
• Run regular 1:1s, set clear expectations, and give direct, actionable feedback
• Build individual growth plans and actively invest in the career development of every engineer on the team
• Manage performance fairly and decisively, recognizing strong work and addressing gaps early
• Foster a team culture of ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement

Delivery & Execution

• Own the team’s delivery end to end: planning, prioritization, estimation, and predictable execution
• Manage the cadence of Chromium upstream rebases and Wave Browser releases, balancing new feature work against upkeep, security patches, and stability
• Establish and improve engineering processes: sprint planning, code review, release management, and incident response
• Track and act on delivery and quality metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, crash rates, defect escape rate)
• Identify and remove blockers, whether technical, organizational, or cross-team

Technical Stewardship

• Partner with staff and senior engineers on architecture decisions, ensuring sound tradeoffs between speed, quality, and maintainability
• Ensure the team manages technical debt deliberately rather than letting it compound
• Champion engineering standards, testing practices, and operational excellence for a product running on millions of desktops
• Stay close enough to the code and the Chromium ecosystem to make informed decisions and earn the team’s trust

Strategic Influence

• Translate business goals and product roadmap into an achievable technical plan and team structure
• Partner with product management on scope, priorities, and tradeoffs; push back when needed with data
• Communicate status, risk, and technical direction clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with other engineering managers to align on shared infrastructure, dependencies, and org-wide practices

Who You Are

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams
• Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex software projects predictably in a fast-moving environment
• Solid technical foundation; able to engage credibly in design reviews and understand systems design, data structures, and software design patterns and anti-patterns
• Experience managing teams working in a strongly typed, imperative language (C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, etc.)
• Comfortable leading across polyglot architectures and reasoning about tradeoffs when systems are built in different languages, runtimes, and paradigms
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence peers, partners, and leadership
• Data-driven mindset; uses metrics to understand team health and guide decisions without losing sight of the people behind them
• Proficiency with Git, Agile methodologies, and collaborative development workflows

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing teams working in a large-scale C++ codebase (Chromium experience is a strong plus)
• Hands-on background as a C++ engineer before moving into management
• Experience shipping browser technology, system software, or native desktop applications on Windows and/or macOS
• Familiarity with release engineering for desktop clients: auto-updates, staged rollouts, crash reporting, and telemetry
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams across time zones