Engineering Manager

Company Description

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who can own technical outcomes, grow engineers into senior contributors, and make hard calls without waiting for permission.

What you'll own

Technical Leadership

• Translate product vision into clear technical goals, architectural direction, and iterative milestones.
• Review design docs, PRs, and CI pipelines—raising the bar on code quality, testing, and observability.
• Drive adoption of best‑in‑class patterns (DDD, event‑driven, clean architecture) across Ruby on Rails, React, and cloud‑native stacks.

People & Delivery

• Lead 6‑10 engineers (mix of backend, frontend, and DevOps) through daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, and quarterly OKR reviews.
• Provide candid feedback, career coaching, and growth plans that turn strong developers into senior‑level contributors.
• Balance velocity with technical debt pay‑down; know when to refactor and when to ship and iterate.

Process & Culture

• Champion true continuous delivery, feature flags, trunk‑based development, automated QA gates.
• Foster a blameless, data driven incident culture. Run postmortems that actually prevent repeats.Collaborate with Product, UX, and Customer Success to keep stakeholder expectations realistic and aligned.

Strategic Impact

• Partner with the CTO on capacity planning, build‑vs‑buy decisions, and platform roadmap.
• Monitor engineering KPIs (lead time, deployment frequency, change‑failure rate, MTTR) and act on what the metrics reveal.
• Represent engineering in client calls and RFP reviews, translating technical trade‑offs into business value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development, with 4+ years leading engineering teams
• Built and scaled teams of 5+ engineers. Hired, coached, and exited underperformers when necessary.
• Shipped SaaS or data intensive products in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices
• Strong communication. Can push back on scope creep while keeping morale high.
• Ruby on Rails and/or React experience preferred, but architectural thinking matters more than specific stack

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience with AI/ML pipelines or real‑time computer‑vision workloads.
• Familiarity with multi‑tenant SaaS security (RLS policies, JWT claims, zero‑trust access).
• Exposure to SOC 2 or HIPAA compliance environments.