Engineering Manager; AI-Native Platform; Remote

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We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives at building high-performing engineering teams, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work, and delivering meaningful business outcomes through strong execution, technical leadership, and operational excellence.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more distributed engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and operating modern cloud-native and AI-powered software systems. You'll partner closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, and fellow Engineering leaders to translate strategy into outcomes while developing engineers, improving engineering effectiveness, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

What You'll Do:

Build High-Performing Engineering Teams Create an inclusive, psychologically safe environment where engineers are empowered to grow, collaborate, and deliver exceptional results.

Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, performance management, and mentoring while raising the overall technical and leadership capability of the team.

Build strong hiring pipelines, make thoughtful hiring decisions, and continuously raise the engineering talent bar.

Drive Delivery Excellence Own predictable delivery for one or more engineering teams by establishing clear priorities, effective planning mechanisms, and strong execution discipline.

Remove obstacles, manage competing priorities, and ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality software aligned with business objectives.

Measure team health using engineering and operational metrics, continuously improving velocity, quality, and customer outcomes.

Partner Across Functions Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Security, and Business stakeholders to align roadmaps, clarify priorities, and ensure engineering investments deliver measurable customer and business value.

Help translate ambiguous business problems into executable engineering plans while balancing technical health with product delivery.

Build AI-Native Engineering Teams Champion the responsible adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle.

Ensure engineers effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, or similar technologies to accelerate software development while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and engineering judgment.

Partner with technical leaders to evaluate opportunities for AI-powered products and agentic systems while ensuring appropriate governance, observability, and operational safeguards.

Establish Operational Excellence Build engineering systems that enable reliable software delivery through strong operational…