Senior Engineering Manager, Web Apps
About the role
The opportunity
Thunderbird is growing beyond our free desktop and mobile applications, and we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Web Applications to lead day-to-day engineering execution and people management for the team responsible for MZLA’s hosted subscription products.
This is a critical product and revenue area for MZLA. The Senior Manager will help the team launch, maintain, and improve hosted services with strong delivery discipline, clear ownership, reliable engineering practices, and a continued focus on quality, privacy, reliability, and user trust.
This is a small, growing team, and the right person will be a hands-on technical manager who wants to stay close to the codebase, product direction, service reliability needs, release readiness, and engineering tradeoffs while also leading people and improving how the team operates. As the Web Applications team continues to mature, this role will require an engaged manager who can help create structure, solve problems, support execution, and build stronger systems around the work.
This role requires consistent overlap with EST time zone working hours, and we strongly prefer candidates located in or closely aligned with this time zone.
What you’ll do
- Lead day-to-day engineering execution in a hands-on management capacity, ensuring priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations are clear.
- Manage Web Services engineers and contractors, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and team development.
- Manage team budget and resource planning, including contractor, vendor, tooling, service, operational expense, and headcount planning inputs.
- Translate product direct