Engineering Manager

EMPLOYMENT: Full-time, remote
SCHEDULE: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
TEAM: 2 mid-level direct reports

Role Overview:
We are a lean team shipping production software quickly. The founder provides direction and expects efficient execution without unnecessary bureaucracy or repeated back-and-forth on decisions a strong manager should make independently. We need a deeply technical Engineering Manager who owns architecture end to end and drives execution across a small team.

You'll Own
• All technical decisions and system architecture
• Direct management of two mid-level engineers
• Translating founder direction into shipped work with minimal turnaround time
• Weekly demonstrations of completed work
• Code review, technical mentorship, and removing blockers for the team
• Full backend and infrastructure ownership
• LLM integrations where they provide meaningful leverage

Required Experience and Capabilities
• 8+ years of experience shipping production software and 3+ years directly managing engineers
• Deep hands-on expertise in Python, Django, and FastAPI
• Strong React experience or expertise in an equivalent modern JavaScript framework
• Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and replication
• Full AWS infrastructure experience, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, and Secrets Manager
• Elasticsearch experience, including indexing, query optimization, and cluster management
• Redis and Celery experience for caching and asynchronous task infrastructure
• Experience integrating third-party APIs across multiple vendors
• Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex used as a primary development tool, with the ability to demonstrate the workflow through screen sharing
• At least one shipped feature where an Anthropic or OpenAI API performs meaningful work
• A proven record of shipping quickly, reducing scope when needed, and making architecture decisions without requiring a detailed specification
• Fluent and confident English communication
• Availability to work 9:00 AM-5:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time

How You Operate
• Receive direction in plain English and execute without unnecessary back-and-forth
• Break work down, assign responsibilities, and remove blockers within the same day
• Ship the fastest correct solution that works instead of overengineering
• Make sound architecture and technical decisions without escalating minor calls
• Avoid unnecessary meetings, excessive ticketing, and process-heavy workflows

Candidate Evaluation Requirements
Candidates should be prepared to provide the following during the evaluation process:
• A three-minute Loom video showing their AI-augmented development workflow, including the editor, rules file, and a real pull request where AI-generated code was reviewed
• A link to a shipped project they led end to end, with a brief explanation of what the LLM did
• A short example of a time they disagreed with a founder or manager and what they built instead
• A brief plan for ramping up two mid-level engineers on a new codebase and getting them shipping within their first 30 days

Compensation
Competitive and negotiable based on experience and location.