Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead a cross-functional product team consisting of four to seven engineers, reporting directly to the CTO.

• Take charge of the team’s people management, project delivery, hiring processes, and operational procedures.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, provide constructive feedback, support career development, and address performance issues promptly and fairly.

• Collaborate with the team to plan project deliveries, maintain visible commitments, eliminate obstacles, and represent the team in planning and product meetings.

• Work closely with the product manager on prioritizing tasks and balancing the roadmap with technical health trade-offs.

• Mentor engineers in planning, directing, reviewing, and validating the work of AI agents.

• Guide the evolution of tools, workflows, and best engineering practices within the team.

• Remain actively involved in the coding process, while not being on the critical path, by coding through agents, reviewing pull requests, and maintaining technical expertise.

• Facilitate structured hiring processes and nurture the development of current engineers.

• Uphold the team’s quality standards and ensure adherence to developer-owned quality practices.

• Utilize delivery and quality metrics to inform coaching and process improvements.

• Collaborate with an international team across different time zones.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing software engineers who reported directly to you, encompassing hiring, one-on-ones, performance reviews, and decision-making.

• At least 5 years of hands-on professional software development experience prior to or alongside management duties.

• Demonstrated proficiency in daily use of AI coding agents, evidenced by the creation of orchestration flows, agents or skills, or extensive tuning of an existing team setup.

• Experience leading a team in adopting agentic workflows.

• Proven track record of coaching engineers through their development and handling challenging situations, including early intervention in cases of underperformance.

• History of managing team delivery from start to finish, including the successful deployment of products and resolving bottlenecks.

• Track record of enhancing and maintaining the team’s quality standards through developer-owned testing and quality gates.

• Experience collaborating closely with product management on setting priorities and making trade-offs.

• Exceptional written and spoken English skills, approximately at a C1 level.

• Background in working on an international team in a day-to-day capacity.

• Nice to have: diverse experience in multiple engineering roles, such as developer, SDET, QA Analyst/manual tester, or Scrum Master.

• Nice to have: experience in leading and enhancing agile ceremonies and team delivery methodologies.

• Nice to have: experience managing a remote team across various time zones.

• Nice to have: background in logistics, delivery, or marketplace domains.

• Nice to have: expertise in coaching quality practices, such as developer-owned testing, test-driven development, refactoring, and observability.

• Must consistently work a schedule that aligns with US Pacific business hours (9 am to 5 pm PT).

• An identity-verified LinkedIn profile is required to apply.

• Identity and work history verification is required before extending an offer, including a live video ID check and reference calls.

• Required technical stack experience includes TypeScript, Node.js, React, Rust, and the AWS ecosystem.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Stipend for laptop and work-from-home setup.

• Monthly stipends for technology expenses (internet and AI tools).

• Remote working opportunities.

• Flexible schedule that aligns with US Pacific business hours.