Engineering Manager

Role overview

Manage an engineering pod of approximately six to eight engineers and own its health, delivery, operating rhythm, and development. You will work in close partnership with a technical lead on architecture and quality and with a product manager on priorities and product value. The role is hands-on enough to remain connected to production engineering while focusing primarily on people leadership, execution, accountability, and continuous improvement in a complex financial-services domain.

Responsibilities

- Establish clear priorities, ownership, expectations, planning practices, retrospectives, and follow-through for the pod. - Remove blockers, identify stalled or poorly scoped work, surface delivery risks early, and keep engineers focused on high-leverage problems. - Hold regular one-to-ones, provide direct and constructive feedback, support growth, and address sustained performance gaps fairly. - Partner with product and technical leaders on tradeoffs, roadmap execution, architecture discussions, and technical quality without acting as the sole decision-maker. - Improve hiring, onboarding, team autonomy, operational reliability, incident response, postmortems, and reduction of engineering toil. - Stay close enough to the codebase and production systems to evaluate plans, estimates, designs, security risks, and delivery health.

Requirements

- Demonstrated experience directly managing engineers, ideally across a product or platform team. - A credible engineering background with experience shipping production software and reviewing pull requests or design documents. - Evidence of improving a team’s ability to deliver predictably and operate with greater clarity and autonomy. - Strong written communication for reviews, escalations, planning, and remote collaboration. - Ability to give difficult feedback clearly and respectfully while maintaining accountability and psychological safety. - Comfort working through ambiguity, high-complexity workflows, operational risk, sensitive data, and cross-functional product decisions.

Nice to have

- Experience with AI-assisted software development, evaluation workflows, experiment design, or dataset curation. - Familiarity with SLOs, incident management, postmortems, security practices, and reliability operations. - Experience hiring and onboarding engineers in a growing organization.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote-first working environment with flexible time off. - Medical coverage with employee and family premiums covered, plus vision, dental, 401(k), HSA/FSA, and access to an employee loan program.