Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management
• Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers
• Strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms
• Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi-quarter engineering initiatives
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices
• Experience managing technical debt alongside product and business priorities
• Ability to understand complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
• A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy

What You'll Be Doing

Lead a strong engineering team

• Manage and develop experienced engineers with significant ownership of their technical domains
• Responsible for regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and team health
• Create an environment where engineers can remain highly autonomous while having clear priorities, ownership, and accountability

Build strong product

• Work closely with Product Managers and department VP to define how the products look, what to build and in which order
• Ensure high-quality products with Quality Engineering and Product Security teams

Drive planning and execution

The team owns several interconnected technical areas; you will:

• Own planning and operational execution across multiple engineering workstreams
• Create visibility into priorities, dependencies, timelines, and resource allocation
• Help the team turn broad technical direction into an executable roadmap
• Identify and remove blockers before they significantly impact delivery

Stay close to technology

• Participate in technical discussions, reviewing designs and architecture proposals
• Understand engineering trade-offs and challenge assumptions when needed
• Enable senior engineers in making technical decisions effectively

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

• Comfortable with engineers understanding individual systems more deeply than you do
• Create clarity, help engineers make good decisions together
• Find and solve problems in the engineering system itself
• Align team roadmap with requirements from different stakeholders
• Combine technical credibility with strong people and execution leadership

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang or Rust; understanding of WASM platform
• Basic understanding of formal grammar, AST, compiler frontends
• Observability and operational tooling
• Open-source development
• AI-assisted software development and automated code review
• PostgreSQL or database infrastructure
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure
• Multi-repository development environments
• Developer-facing APIs, SDKs, libraries, or integrations

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers employees
• Driven by innovation and seeking team players
• Offers a vibrant and dynamic work environment with multiple benefits