Engineering Manager - Core Portal

About the company
Kodex revolutionizes how organizations handle sensitive subpoenas and data requests from law enforcement and government agencies. Founded by a former FBI agent and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Thiel Capital, Kodex has become the industry standard for secure data exchange. Our platform supports over 15,000 government agencies in 190 countries and is trusted by industry leaders like Coinbase, Stripe, and AT&T.
By transforming a traditionally complex and manual process into a streamlined digital workflow, Kodex helps organizations strengthen compliance, enhance security, and reduce operational costs by millions each year. We bridge the gap between companies and authorized requestors, ensuring that sensitive data is handled with uncompromising security, transparency, and efficiency.

About the Role

We’re seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Core Portal team, which owns the central platform powering how customers interact with Kodex. This is one of the most visible and impactful teams at the company — everything our customers do runs through the portal.

You’ll manage and mentor a growing team of ~8 experienced engineers, partner closely with Product and Design, and set the technical and organizational direction for a critical surface of our business. From shaping architecture to scaling team processes, you’ll make decisions that influence not just the customer experience but how Kodex engineering operates at large.

This is an ideal role for a hands-on, people-first leader who thrives in high-growth environments, loves building strong teams, and wants to drive meaningful impact in a space that matters.

What You’ll Do

• Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, supporting growth through feedback, reviews, and career development.

• Partner with Product to define roadmaps, set clear goals, and translate strategy into execution.

• Lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery processes that balance roadmap work, technical debt, and incident response.

• Drive architectural decisions and ensure the team builds scalable, reliable systems.

• Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture where engineers thrive and do their best work.

• Own team OKRs/KPIs, communicate progress and risks to leadership, and ensure alignment with company priorities.

• Support incident response and postmortems for the team’s systems.

You Might Be a Fit If You…

• At least 4–5 years as a hands-on software engineer, and 3+ years managing engineering teams.

• Can mentor engineers and build strong, inclusive teams.

• Have led teams through growth and delivery in fast-paced environments.

• Are comfortable balancing technical trade-offs with product and business priorities.

• Have experience with on-call rotations, incident management, and building reliable systems.

• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Have prior hands-on engineering experience and the technical depth to guide decision-making.

• Care deeply about outcomes, culture, and building software that matters.

Engineering at Kodex

We care deeply about the software we build — because our work protects real people. Kodex plays a critical role in helping major companies respond securely and transparently to sensitive data requests from law enforcement, enabling both privacy protection and public safety.

Our engineering culture is built on trust, autonomy, and technical rigor. Our engineers and managers:

• Own projects end to end

• Collaborate without ego

• Invest in quality and velocity

• Act as force-multipliers for one another

This is a place where the best idea wins, and your leadership has real impact, every day.

Our Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Material UI

• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. We’re hosted on AWS.

• We’re also working on cutting-edge projects using Go and AWS Nitro Enclaves to advance data security.

Benefits

• Remote-first within the U.S.

• Biannual offsites in exciting locations. Past trips include Seattle, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Unlimited PTO + 14 company holidays

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with a flexible return-to-work policy

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Dynamic Environment: Work on impactful, high-priority matters with opportunities for professional growth.

Equal Employment Opportunities at the Company

Kodex is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Kodex believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.