Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Haiven is an early-stage company building digital distribution and communications platforms for gaming, communities, developers, and AI-powered applications. The Engineering Manager will lead and support the engineering team, improve development processes, guide technical decisions, and align delivery with company priorities. This hands-on leadership role also involves mentoring engineers, partnering with Product, participating in architecture decisions, and supporting platform scalability.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support engineers across the organization
- Establish clear expectations around ownership, accountability, quality, and delivery
- Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide feedback, and support professional development
- Participate in hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and team development
- Help identify and remove blockers affecting engineering performance
- Build an engineering culture that encourages collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Partner with Product to translate company priorities into clear and executable engineering work
- Help teams scope projects, identify dependencies, and surface technical or delivery risks
- Maintain visibility into engineering progress and communicate issues to leadership when appropriate
- Improve development and delivery processes as the engineering organization grows
- Ensure projects have clear ownership and appropriate technical direction
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health
- Maintain a strong understanding of Haiven's systems and technical architecture
- Participate in architecture reviews and significant technical decisions
- Help engineers evaluate implementation approaches and technical tradeoffs
- Promote maintainable architecture, reusable patterns, and consistent engineering practices
- Support appropriate standards around code review, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production operations
- Help identify and prioritize technical debt and infrastructure improvements
- Participate in troubleshooting and incident response when necessary
- Serve as a key engineering partner to Product and company leadership
- Communicate technical constraints, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Coordinate engineering work that crosses teams or technical disciplines
- Help resolve unclear ownership, conflicting priorities, and dependencies
- Contribute to engineering planning and longer-term technical strategy
- Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows to augment team productivity, code review, test automation, and development speed
Skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly in English
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience leading teams, projects, or significant technical initiatives
- Experience designing, building, or maintaining production software systems
- Strong understanding of backend development and modern software architecture
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure and production environments
- Familiarity with modern software development practices, including source control, code review, automated deployment, testing, and monitoring
- Experience working collaboratively with Product or other non-engineering teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organize work, establish priorities, and make decisions in an environment with changing requirements
- Comfortable balancing technical leadership with people and organizational responsibilities
- U.S. legal citizens and residents of the United States are preferred for this role
- Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, Technical Lead, or similar leadership role
- Experience with Go or another strongly typed backend language
- Experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerized environments
- Experience building real-time, social, messaging, or high-concurrency systems
- Experience with authentication, permissions, or identity systems
- Experience improving CI/CD, release, or developer workflows
- Experience working in an early-stage or rapidly growing technology company
- Experience helping an engineering team scale from a small initial group into a larger organization
- Familiarity with agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude, Grok) for workflow acceleration and team automation
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- High ownership and impact in a small team environment
- Close collaboration with product and design teams
- Opportunity to grow with the company as the platform scales
- Work on a product used by real developers and players
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