Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nametag is building secure digital identity and account protection solutions that help enterprises reduce fraud and deliver trusted user experiences. The Engineering Manager will lead a senior engineering team, owning people development, delivery, operational health, hiring, cross-functional planning, and engineering standards across backend, frontend, mobile, and machine learning 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.
- Off-sites: We bring the team together once per quarter for in-person collaboration, often off-site in new places.
- Flexible schedules: Work in your own time zone; we align key meetings 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
- An inclusive environment where your voice has impact and your work drives change
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