Software Engineering Manager
About the Role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers while staying close to the technology. You'll own your team's delivery, health, and growth — hiring and developing engineers, driving execution, and partnering across functions — without losing the technical judgment that earns your team's trust. This is a people-leadership role for someone who has built and run high-performing teams and brings a strong engineering foundation to the job.
What You'll Do
Own your team's delivery, health, and growth — planning, execution, and shipping across one or more teams.
Hire, grow, and retain engineers; run 1:1s, performance management, and career development.
Set and raise engineering standards, processes, and ways of working.
Provide technical direction and pressure-test decisions without micromanaging.
Partner with product, design, and leadership; manage up and across.
Own team-level operational excellence, including incident and on-call ownership.
What We're Looking For
8–12 years of total engineering experience, including 3+ years of direct engineering leadership (people management) — owning a team's delivery, growth, and performance, not solely tech-lead/IC seniority.
A track record of hiring, growing, and retaining engineers, with positive retention and team-health outcomes.
Delivery ownership across one or more teams and strong cross-functional partnership with PM, design, and leadership.
A strong underlying engineering foundation comparable to a Staff Engineer: driving architecture and technical direction across multiple services or teams.
Deep distributed systems and cloud-native architecture knowledge; engineering judgment retained alongside the management role.
Demonstrated impact on multi-team technical direction, migrations/modernization, reliability/performance, and engineering standards.
A degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related engineering field is preferred but not required — we weight work outcomes most heavily.
Nice to Have
AI platform architecture experience.
Agentic systems / LLM infrastructure experience.
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