Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager
Location: Remote – US preferred
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience Level: Mid-to-Senior level (3+ years)
Salary Range: $90,000 – $105,000 salary based on experience (U.S. rate, offshore may vary)
Industry: Gaming, Communications, AI, Digital Distribution Platforms, Payments (on-chain)
Required: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly in English.
Haiven is located in Washington State. U.S. legal citizens and residents of the United States are preferred for this role. If offshore, you must be available at least 3 hours each day during afternoons in the U.S. Pacific Time Zone.
About the Role
We are hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead, support, and scale our growing engineering team. You will help build and scale our digital distribution and communications platform, ensuring high quality and rapid execution across real-time chat, community hubs, developer tools, and AI-powered engines. Reporting to the VP of Product.
This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, technical execution, and product delivery. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for helping engineers perform at a high level, improving development processes, supporting technical decision-making, and ensuring engineering work remains aligned with company priorities. This is a hands-on leadership position at an early stage company. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working closely with engineers, participating in technical discussions, helping resolve difficult problems, and creating structure where processes are still evolving.
What You’ll Do
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.
Who You Are
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.
Preferred Qualifications
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.
What We Offer
Competitive FT salary range between $90,000 – $105,000, plus benefits and 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.
Haiven is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a discrimination and harassment-free workplace. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, regardless of demographic characteristics or geographic location. We promote meritocracy values, including: active collaboration, clear communication, relentless follow-up, intelligent risk-taking, forbearance, forgiveness, and an ongoing celebration of excellence.
More on Haiven
Visit www.haiven.gg for details on our company, team, customers, products, and culture.
How to Apply
Tell us why you’re a perfect fit for this role by applying on LinkedIn and completing the Survey Questions. Thank you for your interest in joining Haiven!

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