Engineer Manager

Requirements

• Prior experience managing or mentoring engineers
• Strong experience with C#/.NET and backend application development
• Solid knowledge of RESTful API design and service-oriented architectures
• Experience with relational databases (SQL Server or PostgreSQL) - data modeling, performance tuning
• Comfortable driving AI-assisted development practices across a team
• Experience facilitating SDLC processes and standards
• Strong written and spoken English

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure or AWS)
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
• Experience contributing to ADRs / architecture decisions
• Background in both product-oriented and client-service delivery contexts
• Experience delegating and planning workload across a small-to-mid engineering team

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems using existing tools and logs, debug issues with guidance, and escalate when systems behave unexpectedly
• Partner with AI through context engineering - critically evaluate its output and continuously improve documentation and collaboration patterns to deliver work more effectively
• Maintain deep domain expertise across the systems in use, self-resolve knowledge gaps, and build enough proficiency in new technologies to troubleshoot them effectively
• Take loosely defined feature outcomes, evaluate their technical trade-offs and constraints, and create implementation plans that deliver within existing system boundaries
• Develop your teammates' skills through hands-on mentorship, sharing expertise in the domains where you have strength and experience
• Adopt and facilitate software development lifecycle processes, ensuring the team consistently follows established standards and practices
• Propose and implement solutions that evolve the system architecture, contribute to ADRs, and strengthen the architecture already in place
• Actively assign and distribute work across the team based on availability, skills, and capacity, ensuring tasks reach the right people