Engineering Manager

About ROA
ROA is a real estate brokerage. We launched about two years ago and have grown quickly since, to around $15M in annual revenue and more than $8B in transactions closed by our agents.
Product and Engineering works a bit like its own company inside ROA, with its own goals and roadmap. Until now, most of our work has been about helping the brokerage run well. More and more, it's about building things that make the industry work better for agents and their clients.

The role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our team in India. You'll report to our Director of Product & Engineering and work closely with the team in the US.
This is a hands-on role. You'll spend real time in the code and in design discussions, and you'll also be the person who helps the team grow, shapes how we work, and keeps quality high. Much of what we build touches money and agent records, so getting it right matters as much as moving fast.

What you'll spend your time on

• Leading and growing the team: hiring, one-on-ones, feedback, and helping each engineer do their best work.
• Taking loosely defined problems, working out what actually needs solving, and turning that into work the team can ship.
• Setting a high bar for code, design and reliability, through reviews and by example.
• Building with AI every day and helping the team do the same. We use agents across our workflow, and we want someone who keeps pushing how far that can go.
• Staying technical: writing code, reviewing PRs and weighing in on system design.
• Turning the team's goals into a plan people believe in, and speaking up when the plan needs to change.

Who we'd love to meet

• You've led engineers, formally or informally, and you still enjoy building.
• AI tools are part of how you work, and you have real opinions on what helps and what doesn't.
• You take the time to understand a problem before you start solving it.
• You've worked on systems where mistakes are costly, like payments, ledgers or financial data. This is a strong plus, not a requirement.
• You write clearly. Working across time zones means a lot of our thinking happens in docs.
• You like having autonomy and you're happy to own the outcome.

How we hire
Our process is short and practical. After an intro call, you'll spend time with our engineering team working through the kind of problems you'd see in the job, so come ready to code. The last step is a conversation with our leadership team about how you lead and what you'd like to build. We'll keep you posted at every stage.

Skills
Must have

• Strong Python backend development: APIs, services and data models
• System design for transactional systems where data has to stay correct
• SQL and relational database design
• API design and third-party integrations
• Code review, automated testing and CI/CD practices
• Experience on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Daily use of AI coding tools and agents
• People leadership: hiring, coaching, feedback and performance conversations
• Scoping and planning work, and clear written communication

Nice to have

• Payments, ledgers or other FinOps systems
• Identity and access management (SSO, SAML)
• Observability and incident response
• Experience working with US-based teams across time zones