Engineering Manager

Overview

Role:
Engineering Manager to lead and mentor two backend feature teams. This role acts as principal-level technical authority across backend systems, drives architectural decisions, and ensures consistent delivery execution. Partners with product management and other engineering teams to refine roadmaps and deliver predictable outcomes.

Austin, Texas (Onsite)

• Lead, mentor, and grow two backend feature teams, totaling approximately eight engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.
• Partner with recruiting and HR to hire talent and build scalable onboarding and progression frameworks.
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Act as a principal-level technical authority across backend systems.
• Drive architectural decisions across technologies including .NET (C#), Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare Workers.
• Define and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and deployment best practices.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical and architectural challenges.
• Partner closely with Product Management to refine roadmaps and define scope.
• Monitor team velocity, remove blockers, and ensure consistent delivery.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering and SRE teams on SLAs, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Champion the responsible and effective use of AI-assisted development workflows across teams.

• Experience:
  
  10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams. Demonstrated success hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers across multiple levels.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Expertise in .NET (C#) and Node.js in production environments. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure). Proven experience with Cloudflare Workers and edge computing architectures. Background in distributed systems, API design, and event-driven architectures. Must be an active practitioner and advocate of AI-assisted development practices.
• Communication:
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  
  Experience with multi-cloud architectures and/or Fin Ops practices;
  Familiarity with additional Cloudflare products;
  Experience working in distributed or remote-first engineering organizations;
  Experience hiring and scaling teams in Central or Eastern European markets.

Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.