About this role

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.

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.
Teams you have hired for and built, juniors you grew into seniors, and
underperformance you handled fairly.
Projects delivered 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
Managed managers, or a team of 10+.
Grew a team at a startup or scale-up.
Fintech, payments or marketplace products.
Owned an engineering or cloud budget.

Engineering Manager