Engineering Manager
Leads and develops a team of 6–10 engineers while partnering with the CTO to establish scalable engineering practices, career growth, hiring, and organizational design. This player-coach role requires 3+ years of engineering management experience, 5+ years as a hands-on engineer, and startup hyper-growth experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Directly manage a team of 6–10 engineers, including 1:1s, coaching, career growth, and performance management.
- Own delivery for the team's roadmap through planning, prioritization, and unblocking without adding heavyweight process.
- Partner with the CTO on organizational design, career ladders, and management practices as the engineering organization scales from 20 to 50+ engineers.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews across Rails, TypeScript/React, and Python systems.
- Build and run hiring loops, raise the hiring bar, and close strong engineering candidates.
- Identify and develop future technical leads and managers.
- Introduce effective structure to a previously flat engineering organization without slowing delivery.
- Keep delivery predictable as the team, product surface area, and customer base grow.
Requirements
- 3+ years of direct management experience with software engineers, in addition to 5+ years as a hands-on engineer.
- Experience scaling through hyper-growth at an early-stage startup, from around Series A/B through Series C/D or beyond.
- Technical depth to participate in design reviews and collaborate effectively with senior engineers.
- A track record of managing skeptical teams through technical credibility and measurable outcomes.
- A bias toward lightweight, demonstrably useful processes.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience as a team's first manager or introducing management to a previously flat organization.
- Experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early employee.
- Experience growing individual contributors into managers and building a leadership bench.
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, or Python/ML systems.
- Experience with B2B SaaS, fintech, or data-heavy products.
Compensation and Benefits
- Equity.
- Fully paid employee health coverage through Aetna.
- Dental and vision coverage through Guardian.
- Carrot Fertility Pro fertility and family-forming support.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO and regular four-day holiday weekends.
- 401(k) through Vestwell.
- Paid relocation support to New York City.
- Fully equipped workspace, including laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 setup stipend.
- Catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee and snacks.
Skills
Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Python, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Roadmap Planning, Organizational Design, Career Ladders, Hiring, Performance Management
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