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.