[Remote] Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Haiven is an early-stage company building digital distribution and communications platforms for gaming, communities, developers, and AI-powered applications. The Engineering Manager will lead and support the engineering team, improve development processes, guide technical decisions, and align delivery with company priorities. This hands-on leadership role also involves mentoring engineers, partnering with Product, participating in architecture decisions, and supporting platform scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support engineers across the organization
• Establish clear expectations around ownership, accountability, quality, and delivery
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide feedback, and support professional development
• Participate in hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and team development
• Help identify and remove blockers affecting engineering performance
• Build an engineering culture that encourages collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Partner with Product to translate company priorities into clear and executable engineering work
• Help teams scope projects, identify dependencies, and surface technical or delivery risks
• Maintain visibility into engineering progress and communicate issues to leadership when appropriate
• Improve development and delivery processes as the engineering organization grows
• Ensure projects have clear ownership and appropriate technical direction
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health
• Maintain a strong understanding of Haiven's systems and technical architecture
• Participate in architecture reviews and significant technical decisions
• Help engineers evaluate implementation approaches and technical tradeoffs
• Promote maintainable architecture, reusable patterns, and consistent engineering practices
• Support appropriate standards around code review, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production operations
• Help identify and prioritize technical debt and infrastructure improvements
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident response when necessary
• Serve as a key engineering partner to Product and company leadership
• Communicate technical constraints, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Coordinate engineering work that crosses teams or technical disciplines
• Help resolve unclear ownership, conflicting priorities, and dependencies
• Contribute to engineering planning and longer-term technical strategy
• Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows to augment team productivity, code review, test automation, and development speed

Skills

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly in English
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, projects, or significant technical initiatives
• Experience designing, building, or maintaining production software systems
• Strong understanding of backend development and modern software architecture
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure and production environments
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including source control, code review, automated deployment, testing, and monitoring
• Experience working collaboratively with Product or other non-engineering teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to organize work, establish priorities, and make decisions in an environment with changing requirements
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with people and organizational responsibilities
• U.S. legal citizens and residents of the United States are preferred for this role
• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, Technical Lead, or similar leadership role
• Experience with Go or another strongly typed backend language
• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerized environments
• Experience building real-time, social, messaging, or high-concurrency systems
• Experience with authentication, permissions, or identity systems
• Experience improving CI/CD, release, or developer workflows
• Experience working in an early-stage or rapidly growing technology company
• Experience helping an engineering team scale from a small initial group into a larger organization
• Familiarity with agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude, Grok) for workflow acceleration and team automation

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• High ownership and impact in a small team environment
• Close collaboration with product and design teams
• Opportunity to grow with the company as the platform scales
• Work on a product used by real developers and players

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