Engineering Manager
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Requirements
• We want engineering leaders who are: • Curious and experimental about AI-assisted development for themselves and their team • Strong technical mentors who can teach engineers to validate and improve AI solutions • Quality-focused leaders who know that AI speed doesn't mean lower standards • Growth-minded about evolving their own skills and developing their team • Excited about being on the cutting edge of how engineering teams build software • We're not looking for: • Leaders who are fundamentally resistant to AI-assisted development • Those who see AI as replacing engineers rather than amplifying them • Managers who can't balance hands-on AI usage with team leadership • Leaders who can't articulate and teach good problem-solving processes • 8+ years software engineering experience • 3+ years in technical leadership roles • Strong backend foundation: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, microservices • Experience scaling engineering teams and systems • Cloud experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable) • History balancing hands-on coding with people leadership • Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders • Proven architectural decision-making at scale • Strongly Preferred • Billing, payments, or fintech systems • Mobile backend architectures • Geospatial or routing systems • Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments • Technical Stack • Backend: Java 17+, Spring Boot, REST, GraphQL • Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform • Data: PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Redis • Messaging: Pub/Sub • Mobile: iOS and Android backends • Integrations: Payments, communications, accounting APIs
Responsibilities
• System architecture and technical strategy decisions • Code review standards and quality expectations • Team hiring, development, and performance management • Cross-functional coordination and roadmap planning • Implementation of complex features you own • Test generation and documentation • Query optimization suggestions • Analyzing logs and debugging support • Everything AI produces for yourself and your team • Your judgment ensures correctness, quality, and architectural soundness • Accelerated Team Velocity: • We've seen engineering teams dramatically increase their output using AI tools effectively. As an EM, you'll help your team ship more features, solve problems faster, and spend more time on design and architecture while maintaining (or improving) quality standards. • Critical Leadership Qualities We Need: • Deep understanding of backend systems to validate AI-generated code • Ability to review PostgreSQL queries for correctness and performance • Experience catching architectural issues and edge cases in AI-assisted work • Excitement about mentoring your team through this technological shift • Ability to set clear standards for when to use AI vs when to code manually • Skill in developing engineers' critical thinking about AI-generated solutions • Growth mindset about learning new ways to build software and lead teams • Hands-On Technical Leadership • Write production code on complex backend services, migrations, and integrations • Design and scale backend services with deep focus on PostgreSQL performance • Drive architectural decisions across microservices on GCP • Lead technical design reviews and set engineering standards • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks • Own critical technical initiatives end-to-end • Team and Technical Leadership • Mentor engineers at all levels through reviews, pairing, and guidance • Raise engineering practices: code quality, testing, documentation, incident response • Lead architectural decision-making across domains • Develop senior engineers into technical leaders • Coordinate cross-team technical initiatives • People and Execution Leadership • Manage and develop a team of engineers • Partner on hiring strategy and interview processes • Drive career development and performance growth • Translate product needs into technical roadmaps • Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction • Partner with Product and Customer Success on priorities and escalations • What Makes This a Manager Role • You’ve led technical teams in growing engineering organizations • You’ve made architectural and organizational decisions with lasting impact • You remain hands-on with production code • You’ve developed senior engineers into technical leaders • You balance speed and quality and know when each matters • Engineers seek your technical and career guidance • You lead through influence and technical credibility
Benefits
• Equity options available to eligible employees after a probation period of six months with the company. • Paid time off (PTO) policy includes two weeks of paid vacation for full-time employees, plus an additional week's PTO accrued monthly up to 20 days per year. • Comprehensive health insurance plan covering medical, dental, and vision care with a company contribution towards premiums based on the employee’s salary bracket. • Perks include free meals at our partner restaurants three times a week for full-time employees working in San Francisco office during business hours; access to an annual retreat funded by Hauler Hero, which includes team building activities and professional development workshops focused on AI integration into engineering practices. • Remote work options available up to two days per week with the possibility of extending this flexibility based on individual performance evaluations after six months in a remote position.