Engineering Project Manager

You'll serve as the organizational backbone of our engineering organization at Jove.

As Engineering Project

Manager, you'll wear multiple hats - product owner, scrum master, and coach - ensuring smooth delivery of features while facilitating collaboration between engineering, product, and design teams across two development squads.

What You'll Do

Act as product owner, scrum master, and agile coach for multiple engineering squads

Facilitate daily standups and bi-weekly sprint planning sessions

Coordinate release schedules and feature deployments across squads

Work with Product Managers and Designers to refine requirements and user stories

Meet regularly with Director of Engineering and Staff Engineers on strategic planning

Manage project timelines, dependencies, and roadmap communication

Track progress in Jira and ensure clear visibility into development status

Remove blockers and facilitate communication between team members

Coach engineers and teams on agile best practices and processes

Coordinate with QA Engineers on testing timelines and release readiness

Bridge communication between engineering and other departments

Who You'll Work With

Report directly to the Director of Engineering

Support two or more squads totaling 12+ engineers, 2 QA Engineers, and 2 Staff Engineers

Meet regularly with the Director of Engineering and Staff Engineers on strategy

Partner daily with Product Managers and Designers on requirements and priorities

Collaborate with the leadership team on company-wide initiatives

Coordinate across distributed team members in North and South America

What We're Looking For

Proven experience as a project manager, scrum master, or agile coach

Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and agile methodologies

Excellent organizational and time management skills

Ability to facilitate meetings and drive consensus among stakeholders

Strong written and spoken English (professional Spanish is a plus)

Experience managing remote and distributed teams

Comfort with technical concepts and engineering workflows

Exceptional communication skills across all levels of the organization

Proactive problem-solving mindset with a focus on unblocking teams

Experience with Jira, agile tools, and software project tracking

Our Stack

Backend: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq

Frontend: Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus), React, Tailwind CSS, Material UI

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, GitOps

Testing: Ruby & RSpec (unit/integration), Playwright (QA automation)

Tools: Jira, Slack, Figma, Miro, Claude Cowork

Approach: Trunk-based development, feature flags, daily deploys, two-week sprints, team retrospectives, risk assessments

Onboarding & In-Office Expectations:

Ability to work onsite at least three (3) days during the first week, followed by consistent weekly in-office presence throughout the first 90 days to support onboarding, training, and team integration.

Location

Durham, NC or Remote, North Carolina (Hybrid)

Department

Product Development

Employment Type

Full-Time

Minimum Experience

Experienced