What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager position at hirevouch?
As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major features in web and mobile. You’ll play a pivotal role in advancing our evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering a healthy and collaborative culture, guiding the team's execution and delivery, and mentoring engineers to grow their careers and capabilities.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. **
To thrive in this role, you have:
- Proven experience leading software teams using agile development methodologies.
- A strong technical background with a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications, services, and third-party integrations.
- Experience working on high-impact, business-critical domains, where reliability, performance, and operational stability are essential.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop talent, strengthening the team's capabilities through effective coaching and mentorship.
- The ability to engage in strategic technical discussions, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals, especially in environments involving multiple systems and external partners.
- A sense of empathy for the customer and a relentless focus on shipping high-quality products.
- Excellent communication skills that empower you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others.
- A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool.
What you'll do:
- Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team:
- Foster a healthy, collaborative, and diverse culture that reflects our company and engineering values.
- Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and high engagement.
- Partner with our recruiting team to source, recruit, and onboard talent
- Drive Execution:
- Jointly own the team's execution and delivery of the product roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager, particularly for systems that power critical customer workflows and third-party integrations.
- Run an agile engineering process that empowers engineers with the context and autonomy needed to ship high-quality products efficiently and predictably.
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, QA, and partner teams responsible for integrations and platform capabilities.
- Provide Technical and Strategic Guidance:
- Coach, challenge, and lead the team through complex technical problems.
- Collaborate with leadership to identify and prioritize strategic technology investments aligned with business objectives.
- Engage in Hands-On Technical Contribution:
- While this is a management role, we believe in staying close to the technology. You can expect to spend a portion of your time on system design and code reviews.
- Provide architectural oversight and conduct thorough code reviews to uphold high engineering standards across core services and integration points.
Our Tech Stack
You can expect to work with applications that deploy multiple times a day, relying heavily on automated testing and CI. Our modern tech stack includes Go, React, Typescript, Postgres, and AWS services.