Engineering Manager - Affnook (Remote)

Affnook empowers affiliate marketing success of iGaming brands and operators through its cutting-edge affiliate marketing software. Our subscription-based platform combines the capabilities of an affiliate management solution, attribution tracking tool, campaign management platform and an anti-fraud tool. Aside from this, Affnook affiliate marketing software supports two-way API integration with all the leading third-party tools that an iGaming marketer requires to build, track and scale their marketing campaigns.
Affnook has helped global giants achieve record-breaking growth, but also empowered fledgling startups to find their niche. From the bustling casinos of Las Vegas to the emerging markets of Africa, we're proud to empower over 100 iGaming clients to thrive in a diverse and dynamic landscape.
Roles And Responsibilities
Architecture & Design Leadership
Lead, coach, and grow a backend engineering team: 1:1s, performance, hiring, and career growth
Own delivery: scope, sequencing, risk, and shipping against the roadmap
Unblock the team — priorities, dependencies, design decisions, and operational load
Customers & Communication
Communicate clearly with customers, support, product, and engineering — no jargon hiding the actual status
Unblock customers from a technical perspective: reproduce, triage, explain impact, and drive a fix or workaround
Own customer escalations: join the call, set expectations, coordinate the engineering response, and close the loop
Technical Leadership
Hold the bar on architecture, reviews, testing, and production readiness for backend systems
Make or facilitate calls across services, data stores, and messaging — without becoming the bottleneck
Partner with SDE-3s and tech leads on RFCs, incidents, and the technical roadmap
Production
Ensure the team can deploy, roll back, and debug services on GCP and DigitalOcean
Drive incident response and post-incident follow-through when production or a customer is hurting
Engineering Practices
Install simple habits: design reviews, on-call, observability, documentation
Use AI tools for coding, review, tests, and docs; keep accountability with the engineer who ships
Technologies We Use
Languages / runtime: Go, Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript)
Data: MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, Memcached
APIs & messaging: REST, gRPC, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub
Cloud & delivery: GCP, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins / GitHub Actions, Argo
Observability: Grafana
Requirements
8+ years in software engineering, including time as an Engineering Manager or lead with direct people responsibility
BE/Btech graduate
Comfortable in working from office.
Has owned delivery for a backend team shipping production services
Strong communicator — can explain a technical issue to a customer and a trade-off to leadership
Has handled customer or production escalations: triage, communication, and close-out
Working fluency with distributed backend systems: APIs, gRPC, Kafka or equivalent, data stores, caches
Hands-on enough in Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript) and/or Go to review designs and debug with the
team
Understands deploying and operating services on a public cloud (GCP and/or DigitalOcean preferred)
Can work from production evidence: logs, metrics, traces, Grafana or equivalent
Uses AI assistants for coding, reviews, tests, and documentation — without lowering the quality bar
Benefits
Performance-driven culture with accelerated growth opportunities for high achievers
Best-in-industry compensation aligned with your skills and contributions
Comprehensive medical insurance coverage and employee-focused benefits
Attractive reimbursement policies that support your professional and personal development
5-day working week designed to promote work-life balance and long-term career success

Work arrangement
Yes