Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Next Step Systems is a national IT recruiting firm. The company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products, while owning technical delivery, architecture, reliability, and team performance. The role also involves coaching engineers, improving engineering processes, and driving products and systems from ideas through production.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development
- Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability and technical quality
- Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution
- Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems
- Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability
- Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions
- Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations
- Identify performance gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar
- Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale
- Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor systems, resolve incidents, identify root causes and ensure problems do not repeat
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience is required
- Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems
- Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery
- Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
- Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability
- Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production
- Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues
- Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Able to work fast with ambiguity, establish priorities and drive teams toward clear outcomes
- Strong ownership mentality when something breaks or delivery slips, you take responsibility for getting it back on track
- English is the main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Savings Plan Options
- PTO
- 100% Remote
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