Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee, mentor, and develop senior and staff engineers through one-on-one meetings, feedback, and decisions regarding performance and promotions.

• Establish expectations, proactively address issues, and maintain team focus and standards.

• Create career pathways and opportunities for professional growth.

• Manage planning and execution to ensure the team delivers consistently.

• Make and convey tradeoffs regarding speed, quality, and scope.

• Remove obstacles to work and escalate issues as necessary.

• Take responsibility for reliability, on-call duties, and incident responses.

• Lead postmortems and enhance processes following incidents.

• Ensure compliance with SOC 2, customer commitments, and secure development lifecycle requirements.

• Collaborate with product and design to create sequenced, actionable roadmaps.

• Represent the engineering team in technical discussions with customers, prospects, and executives.

• Convert customer requirements into feasible architectural solutions.

• Manage engineering recruitment, including sourcing, interview design, calibration, and closing candidates.

• Design team structure and clarify ownership boundaries as the organization expands.

• Establish standards for code reviews, testing, deployment, documentation, and architectural decision records.

• Define responsible usage of AI tools in the engineering process.

• Enhance build, test, deployment, and overall developer experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

• At least 3 years of experience managing software engineers, including senior and staff-level individual contributors, with a proven track record of delivering production systems.

• Strong engineering expertise, including the development and operation of backend or distributed systems at scale.

• Capability to effectively participate in design reviews.

• Experience in taking ownership of team delivery, including planning, prioritization, and accountability for results.

• Proven experience managing on-call duties and incident responses for a production system with real availability expectations.

• Demonstrated success in hiring, including establishing an effective interview process.

• Comfort with the dynamic nature of startup environments, tackling ambiguous challenges and shifting priorities.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Background in security, identity, fraud, or infrastructure-related B2B SaaS.

• Proficiency with Go, AWS, and service-oriented architectures.

• Experience scaling an engineering organization during a growth phase.

• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar compliance frameworks as an engineering leader.

• An informed perspective on how AI coding tools impact engineering processes and quality, based on practical experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity ownership.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Quarterly team off-sites and travel support.

• Provision of new computer hardware and equipment.

• Flexible working hours; work in your preferred time zone.

• Remote-first work policy, allowing you to operate from anywhere in the US.

• Regular in-person team collaboration and quarterly off-site gatherings.