realmalliance - Engineering Manager

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep software engineering fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, system design • 2+ years managing engineers with a track record of growing careers and raising performance bars • Strong individual contributor background — you've written production code at scale, not just managed people who do • Confidence across the stack: backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and at least one domain of AI/ML or computer vision • Proficiency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and an AI-first development mindset • Startup experience — you've been an early engineering leader and know what it takes to build from scratch • Leadership & team building • An established reputation — engineers who have worked with you want to work with you again, and you're prepared to bring them in • A genuine network of top-tier engineers who trust you and want to build with you — recruiting and getting to build a team ground up is a big part of this role and something that excites you • Strong hiring instincts and a genuine passion for recruiting: you know great engineers when you see them, and you know how to close them • Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold a high bar without sacrificing team morale • Experience building remote engineering cultures where ownership, communication, and autonomy replace process overhead • Engineering judgment & quality • Strong alignment on code quality, architecture, and technical debt — and the diplomacy to land them on a team of strong opinions • Appreciation for continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean abstractions • Ability to distinguish between premature optimization and genuine technical risk • Mission alignment • Genuine belief that technology can make industrial operations safer, more efficient, and more humane — you don't need to be sold on the mission, you're energized by it • Comfort with the ambiguity, urgency, and accountability that come with building software that runs at active mines • US citizen or permanent resident, based in the US • Recruiter screen (15 mins) • Intro call with Eugene, CEO & Cofounder / hiring manager (20 mins) • Take home tech assessment (1hr) • Technical with Eng (1hr) + Chat with Head of Ops (30 mins) • Chat with Eng (30 mins) + Chat with Designer (30 mins) • Final Technical with Eugene (1.5hrs) + Chat with Cofounder Myles (45 mins)