Engineering Manager

Full-time · [City / Remote] · Reports to the [CTO / VP Engineering]

You lead a team of [6–10] backend and frontend engineers. You hire them, grow them, and make sure they ship the right things at a steady pace.

What you'll do

• Lead a team working in Rails, Go, Vue, and React.
• Hire: define the role, run interviews, close candidates, and onboard them.
• Hold weekly 1:1s, give clear feedback, set growth plans, and run performance reviews.
• Plan delivery with product: break down the roadmap, commit to realistic dates, and flag risks early.
• Own how the team works: planning, code review standards, releases, and incident response.
• Balance features against tech debt, reliability, and security, together with the solution architect.
• Track team health with a few metrics, such as deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate, and act on them.
• Stay technical: review designs, join incident calls, and pick up small tickets when it unblocks the team.

What you need

• 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers directly.
• A background as a backend or full-stack engineer. Rails, Go, or modern frontend experience helps you earn trust.
• Experience hiring and building teams, growing juniors into seniors, and handling underperformance fairly.
• Experience delivering projects on time across several teams and dependencies.
• Scrum or Kanban experience, without process for its own sake.
• Clear communication with engineers, product, and executives, in writing and in person.

Nice to have

• Experience managing managers or a team of 10+.
• Experience growing a team at a startup or scale-up.
• Experience with fintech, payments, or marketplace products.
• Experience owning an engineering or cloud budget.

What we offer

• Medical insurance for you and your family.
• [Remote / hybrid] work and flexible hours.
• Yearly budget for leadership training and conferences.