Engineering Manager, Proton
Pass
+ Stock Options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Job no longer available
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- You've made the transition from Senior/Staff Engineer or Tech Lead into an EM role and you've done it well. You're comfortable in both conversations: architecture trade-offs with engineers and roadmap trade-offs with product and leadership. You don't need to be the best coder in the room, but you need to be credible in it — and occasionally willing to get your hands dirty when it counts
- People Management
- You've managed individual contributors directly. You know the difference between a performance issue and a motivation issue, and you handle both with care and directness. You've navigated the complexity of cross-team efforts and know how to get alignment without a lot of formal authority
- Product Mindset
- You think like a founder. You care about outcomes, not just output. Whether you've been part of a founding team, worked in a startup environment, or simply operated with that mentality inside a larger org — you bring the instinct to ask "does this actually matter for the user?" before committing engineering resources
- Shipping at Scale
- You have a track record of delivering software on real timelines. You know how to scope, how to cut scope wisely, and how to lead a team through the uncertainty of building products that millions of people rely on
- Communication
- You write and speak clearly. You give context, not just directives. Your team knows what the priorities are and why — because you've made sure of it
- Staying Sharp
- You keep up with where software engineering is going — including AI-assisted development — and you actively think about how it applies to your team's work
What the job involves
- Proton Pass is one of the fastest-growing products in our portfolio, and we're raising the bar to make it the best password manager in the world — not just the most private one
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the frontend teams behind Proton Pass, Proton Authenticator, and SimpleLogin across Web, Android, and iOS
- This is a high-ownership role
- You'll inherit a team of skilled engineers already shipping, but there's meaningful work to do: tightening how we operate, raising the quality bar, and scaling our ability to move fast without breaking things
- You'll report directly to the Business Unit Lead and work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and platform teams across Proton
- If you've led engineering teams before and you're the kind of person who gets restless when things aren't improving — this role is for you
- You'll manage a multi-disciplinary frontend team spanning three platforms
- That means regular 1-on-1s with substance, honest performance conversations, and building genuine career paths for your engineers — not just checking boxes
- You'll also hire when needed and shape the team's culture over time
- You'll be responsible for how the team plans, prioritizes, and ships
- That includes breaking down ambiguous problems into iterative scopes, managing cross-team dependencies, and keeping stakeholders aligned without slowing engineers down. We move fast — your job is to make that sustainable
- You'll balance speed with quality and invest in the processes and tooling that make engineers effective. Code reviews, CI/CD, release processes, incident response — you understand the full lifecycle and know where the leverage points are
- You'll work closely with the Business Unit Lead and other senior stakeholders to make sure engineering decisions are grounded in business and product context. You have opinions, you share them clearly, and you know how to bring people along
- In your first 90 days, you've built trust with your team, developed a clear picture of where the gaps are, and started making measurable improvements to how the team operates
- By the end of your first year, Proton Pass has shipped meaningful improvements to its core experience, your team is stronger than when you joined, and you've built the cross-functional relationships that let you move fast at scale
- You'll lead roughly 8 engineers across Web, Android, and iOS. The team is experienced and motivated — your job isn't to fix a broken team, it's to take a good one further. You'll have the support of the Business Unit Lead and access to platform and infrastructure teams across Proton
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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