Engineering Manager

If you are considering this role, you are someone who has discovered that your highest leverage isn’t just in the code you write – it’s in making the people around you better. You’re a credible technical voice your team respects, and you’re learning how to use that credibility to multiply the team’s output rather than carry it alone.

This is an Engineering Manager role. You’ll own 1–2 cross‑functional pods of engineers, partnering closely with a product owner to ship work that matters in Gravitate’s fuel logistics platform. Your job is to keep the team healthy, the delivery moving, and each person on the team growing.

You’re expected to stay technically engaged – reviewing code and designs, leading incident triage, contributing code at a senior engineer level. At the same time, you’re becoming an expert in the craft of team management: running tight rituals, giving clear feedback, hiring well, and managing performance when it counts.

We’re strongly against artificial separations of responsibility and throwing work “over the wall.” As an engineering manager here, you’re part of the product team – not a gatekeeper between engineering and product.

• You’re a player‑coach. You still have enough technical depth to review code, write code, evaluate designs, and debug production issues alongside your team. You’re not just managing – you’re contributing.
• You ship. You take personal ownership of your team’s commitments. When things get stuck, you unstick them – whether that means reprioritizing with product, unblocking an engineer one‑on‑one, or jumping into the code.
• You’re a clear, kind communicator. You give feedback early and directly. Your 1:1s are useful to the people in them. You translate business context to the team and team context to leadership, without spinning either.
• You’re building your leadership craft. You’re in the process of learning how to hire well, manage performance at both ends of the spectrum, and create a team environment where people do their best work. You’re receptive to coaching and actively growing.
• You genuinely care about your people. You notice when someone is struggling before they say it. You invest in their growth not because it’s on a checklist but because it matters to you.

• Own and run your team’s rituals – standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming – keeping them tight, purposeful, and actually useful.
• Partner with your product owner to manage scope, priorities, and trade‑offs; translate business context into what the team needs to know to do good work. You should be able to build a strong understanding of our product, the industry, and the customer to be a partner to your product counterpart.
• Remove blockers for your engineers – whether that’s a dependency, a design ambiguity, or a process that’s getting in the way.
• Participate in and facilitate technical design reviews; ensure designs meet quality standards and reflect product and business context from your domain.
• Stay code‑active at a senior level: reviewing PRs, contributing to production code, and maintaining the technical credibility to have real conversations with your team.
• Lead incident triage and response for your product area; own retrospectives that actually improve things.
• Drive monitoring, observability, and performance health in your team’s product area.
• Deliver clear, timely feedback to every engineer on your team; conduct regular 1:1s focused on growth, blockers, and wellbeing.
• Hire well for your team – partner with recruiting, define the bar, and own the process from screen to close.
• Manage performance proactively – recognize and reward strong contributors; address underperformance directly and constructively.
• Communicate team status, risks, and blockers upward to engineering leadership on a regular cadence.

• 2+ years of engineering management experience in a tech company with a team of > 4 engineers.
• Strong technical foundation – equivalent depth to a Senior Software Engineer. Comfortable reviewing code, evaluating architecture, and debugging production issues.
• Experience partnering closely with a product owner or…