# Engineering Manager (Acquired Products & VPN) (Remote)

Hiring organization: [Mode](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/mode)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/818f57a7-3164-409f-9468-a9147329c771

Listed on Mode's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes

## Summary

Lead a hands-on engineering team that integrates and operates a recently acquired VPN product, moving it through stabilization and growth while building a repeatable playbook for future acquisitions. This role suits an experienced engineer-leader comfortable with technical depth, product ownership, and the operational complexity of inheriting a live system.

_Our summary, not Mode's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amplitude, Ansible, CI/CD, Datadog, DNS, Docker, Firebase, Go, Infrastructure as Code, Kotlin, Mixpanel, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, SSL/TLS, Stripe, Swift, Terraform

## Required

- 8+ years professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years managing engineers as a people manager or hands-on tech lead in agile consumer product delivery
- Deep expertise in at least one core area (native mobile, backend services, infrastructure/DevOps, or networking/VPN) with breadth across the stack
- Experience leading or contributing to a technical acquisition, migration, or takeover of a live product
- Track record of raising engineering quality on inherited systems through testing, CI/CD, code review, and documentation
- Proficiency with AI coding agents for development, investigation, and testing
- Strong candid and empathetic communication skills
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems and leading technical direction

## Nice to have

- Experience running a consumer VPN, proxy, or privacy product in restrictive networks
- Experience managing distributed, remote, multi-timezone teams
- Subscription business experience (in-app purchases, Stripe, RevenueCat, attribution and analytics)
- Vendor and cost management across multiple cloud providers
- SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA compliance program experience and security audits
- Experience building acquisition-integration playbooks or internal engineering standards programs

Apply on Mode's site: https://www.modemobile.com/open-role?gh_jid=8812093002