Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nametag is building secure digital identity, identity verification, and account protection solutions for people and organizations. The Engineering Manager will lead a senior engineering team, owning delivery, operational health, hiring, engineering standards, and responsible use of AI tooling across backend, frontend, mobile, and fraud detection systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of senior and staff engineers, including regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance and promotion decisions
- Set expectations clearly and address problems early. Protect the team's focus and its standards with equal energy
- Grow people deliberately — career paths, stretch work, and the honest conversations that make either one meaningful
- Run planning and execution so the team ships predictably: clear scope, visible progress, and no surprises at the end of a quarter
- Make and communicate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scope, and be accountable for the call
- Unblock work. Escalate the things that need escalating and absorb the rest
- Be accountable for reliability, on-call, and incident response for the systems your team owns
- Drive postmortems that change something. Treat a repeat incident as a process failure, not bad luck
- Keep security and compliance obligations — SOC 2, customer commitments, secure development lifecycle — as part of normal engineering work rather than an annual scramble
- Work with product and design to turn a roadmap into a sequenced, buildable plan
- Represent engineering to customers, prospects, and the exec team, including in the technical conversations that close enterprise deals
- Translate between what customers need and what the architecture will actually support
- Own engineering hiring: sourcing, interview design, calibration, and closing
- Raise the quality of the bar and the fairness of the process at the same time
- Design team structure and ownership boundaries as the org grows
- Set and enforce the standards — code review, testing, deployment, documentation, architectural decision records — that let a small team move fast without breaking trust
- Define how the team uses AI tooling responsibly: where agents accelerate work, where a human stays accountable, and what review looks like in between
- Make the build, test, and deploy path something engineers trust. Developer experience is a leadership responsibility
Skills
- Work authorization required: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship
- • 3+ years managing software engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs, with a track record of shipping production systems
- • A strong engineering background of your own — you've built and operated backend or distributed systems at scale, and you can still hold your own in a design review
- • Experience owning delivery for a team: planning, prioritization, and accountability for outcomes rather than activity
- • Experience running on-call and incident response for a production system with real availability expectations
- • Demonstrated hiring success — you've built an interview process, not just sat on panels
- • Comfort operating at startup scope: ambiguous problems, shifting priorities, and no one else to hand the hard thing to
- • Strong written communication. We're remote-first, and decisions that aren't written down didn't happen
- • Experience in security, identity, fraud, or infrastructure-adjacent B2B SaaS
- • Experience with Go, AWS, and a services architecture
- • Experience scaling an engineering org through a growth stage — adding teams, layers, or a second manager
- • Experience with SOC 2 or similar compliance regimes as an engineering leader rather than a bystander
- • A real point of view, informed by practice, on how AI coding tools change engineering process and quality
Benefits
- Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the US.
- Quarterly in-person team off-sites, often off-site in new places.
- Flexible schedules: Work in your own time zone; key meetings are aligned across a shared window.
- Meaningful equity ownership.
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision).
- Flexible paid time off.
- Quarterly team off-sites and travel support.
- New computer hardware and equipment.
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