Engineering Manager

You will lead a team of 4-6 engineers spanning our SaaS product and Voice AI platform. This is a working manager role, not a pure people manager, and not a hands-off strategist. You are expected to hold three responsibilities in parallel, and we have designed the role split honestly so you can plan for it: 40% technical leadership. Architecture reviews, design decisions, quality standards, release discipline, and cross-cutting technical strategy. 30% is people leadership. 1:1s, career growth, hiring, calibration, handling the hard conversations, and protecting focus time. 30% direct code. You still commit. Not on the critical path of every sprint, but on the sharp problem spikes, tricky integrations, unblocking, and prototypes. You should want all three. If you are looking to fully step out of code, this is not the right role. If you want to build an engineering org from an early stage and still have your hands in the system, it is.
Responsibilities:
Own delivery for your team. Break down initiatives, sequence work, remove blockers, and ship on committed dates without burning the team out.
Set the technical bar. Drive code review culture and define standards for quality, testing, observability, and on-call. Enforce them by example, not memos.
Grow the people. Run meaningful 1:1s, give clear feedback, define growth paths, and coach engineers into stronger versions of themselves.
Contribute technically. Design and review architecture across our stack: web, backend services, and AI/voice integrations. Write code where it matters most.
Partner with the CTO. Translate product and business direction into technical plans. Surface trade-offs early, own the follow-through.
Build the operating rhythm. Sprint planning, retros, incident reviews, and release cadence are not ceremonies, but the system that keeps a small team scaling.

Experience
6-10 yrs