Loancrate

Engineering Manager

• Own the health, output, and trajectory of an engineering pod of roughly 6–8 engineers, reporting to the Head of Engineering.
• Own the pod’s operating system, including people, execution, delivery health, cross-functional partnership, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and run planning, retrospectives, and follow-through.
• Clarify priorities, ownership, and expectations, and remove blockers.
• Hold standards for accountability, autonomy, psychological safety, and performance.
• Monitor roadmap execution, identify stalled or poorly scoped projects, and intervene early.
• Run weekly 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, manage performance, support growth, and address performance gaps.
• Own onboarding for new engineers, including preparing meaningful work before day one and supporting a high-touch first month.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and ownership boundaries.
• Partner with the Product Manager on planning, prioritization, requirements, tradeoffs, and high-value problems.
• Partner with the Technical Lead on architecture, technical quality, technical risk, technical decisions, and technical debt.
• Contribute as an IC when appropriate and help ensure incidents lead to durable improvements; on-call is shared team-wide.
• Assess pod skills and seniority mix, recommend hiring, interview candidates, help close candidates, and support succession planning.
• Communicate pod health, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks to the Head of Engineering and other stakeholders.
• Deliver meaningful outcomes, improve onboarding and team growth, manage quality risks, and help the pod solve problems independently.