Engineering Manager

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a software engineering team that owns a broad set of third-party connectors, splitting time between people leadership and hands-on technical work. Set priorities, coach engineers and keep the team delivering quickly at a high standard.

What you'll do

- Lead by example and raise the bar for technical execution across the team.

- Prioritize incoming requests for new and enhanced connectors, balancing near-term business needs with longer-term engineering improvements.

- Improve data throughput to varied external systems through parallelism, batching, rate-limit handling and algorithmic optimization.

- Stay hands-on with engineering work alongside the team.

- Mentor and guide engineers, giving them high ownership and autonomy.

- Work with customers and partners to design solutions for new use cases.

- Recruit, hire and develop software engineers.

- Explore how AI tools can help the team ship faster and with higher quality.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Prior people-management background of about 1 to 4 years, such as a team lead or early-stage engineering manager role, including recruiting and leading software engineers.

- A history of engineering work on shared infrastructure layers, such as data movement, external APIs or synchronization systems.

- A player-coach approach and comfort pairing with engineers on technical work regularly.

- Meaningful time at a high-growth startup, having joined during a phase of rapid scaling.

- A degree in computer science, math or a similar field.

- A record of impact and career progression, with average tenure longer than 2 years.

- Enthusiasm for quick delivery cycles and compact, hands-on projects.

- Ability to reason from first principles and form clear opinions on ambiguous problems.

- Clear communication and a passion for mentoring newer engineers.

Bonus points

- Background in performance tuning, such as parallel processing and batching.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 320,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- Remote (US or Canada)

- Full-time