Senior Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Uzbekistan, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering squads focused on Platform and Integrations.

• Establish the technical and product direction for both teams while reporting directly to the CTO.

• Serve as the product owner by collecting requirements, prioritizing tasks, and developing roadmaps.

• Define, sequence, and scope projects while ensuring delivery milestones are met.

• Monitor team health throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), eliminate bottlenecks, and enhance processes.

• Align both teams with other engineering squads and effectively communicate roadmaps, trade-offs, and risks.

• Develop a technical vision and plan for scalability.

• Own and manage technical roadmaps, prioritizing strategic technical debt.

• Write and review code in Java, Python, or Go as necessary.

• Contribute to system design, API contracts, and decisions regarding scalability.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams on cloud technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and monitoring solutions.

• Engage in root-cause analyses of production incidents to maintain platform reliability.

• Set engineering quality standards for pull requests, test coverage, rollback plans, monitoring, and alerts.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, provide coaching, and perform performance reviews.

• Support career development and delegate ownership effectively.

• Plan headcount needs, recruit, and onboard engineering staff.

• Monitor and enhance engineering velocity and quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in English, with strong speaking and writing abilities.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing engineering teams consisting of 10–15 members.

• Over 5 years of experience in software development as an individual contributor (IC) engineer.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Python, or Golang.

• Experience in product management, including ownership of roadmaps, stakeholder prioritization, and scope trade-offs.

• Background in DevOps/infrastructure with cloud technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and monitoring systems.

• Proven experience with Lean/Agile management methodologies.

• Successful delivery of several large-scale projects in the past 3 years.

• Strong skills in communication, prioritization, coaching, hiring, onboarding, and people management.

• Ability to manage teams with diverse skill sets and facilitate one-on-ones, planning sessions, group discussions, and retrospectives.

• Capacity to navigate trade-offs between code quality and development speed.

• Preferred: experience with Platform, infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.

• Preferred: experience in building or managing public APIs, partner integrations, webhooks, event-driven systems, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.

• Preferred: experience in startup engineering management during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.

• Preferred: experience with establishing practices for code reviews, performance reviews, levels, and career ladders.

• Preferred: experience in managing partially or fully remote teams.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Datadog and Metabase.

• Knowledge of the Russian language is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• A fully distributed remote-first work culture.

• Monthly gym/wellness stipend of $50.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• 6 weeks of paid paternity leave.

• Excellent technology and gear setup.

• Support for home office outfitting, if required.