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Loancrate

Engineering Manager

Loancrate

. Own the health, output, and trajectory of an engineering pod of roughly 6–8 engineers, reporting to the Head of Engineering.

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $225,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing engineering teams, focusing on performance improvement, accountability, and effective onboarding. Possesses a solid engineering background with expertise in modern AI product development and technical risk assessment.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Engineering Team ManagementAI Product DevelopmentTechnical Familiarity with TypeScriptOperational Reliability ExperienceCrisp Written Communication

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Hard Skills
Performance ManagementDelivery Predictability ImprovementTechnical Risk EvaluationIncident ResponseSLOs ManagementOnboarding Process DevelopmentProject PlanningTechnical DocumentationData Security AwarenessExperiment Design
Soft Skills
Direct FeedbackCross-Functional PartnershipComfort with AmbiguityPsychological Safety AdvocacyContinuous Improvement Mindset
Tools & Technologies
TypeScriptReactNode/ExpressDockerGraphQL/ApolloPostgres/AuroraAWSTerraformDatadogCloudWatch
Industry Keywords
Production SoftwareEngineering PodPerformance ImprovementHigh-Complexity DomainsTechnical Debt Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ApolloAWSDockerGraphQLNode.jsPostgresReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience managing engineers directly — ideally 5+ on a product or platform team, with real examples of performance you improved and performance you had to manage out.
  • A credible engineering background with experience shipping production software, reading PRs, evaluating design documents, and challenging estimates.
  • A track record of improving delivery predictability under management.
  • Fluency with modern AI product development, including evals, experiment design, dataset curation, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and high-complexity domains.
  • Strong product partnership instincts and ability to engage with non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Crisp written communication.
  • Directness with care when giving feedback.
  • Operational and reliability experience, including SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Keen awareness of security risks involving sensitive personal data.
  • Experience hiring and onboarding in a growing organization.
  • Technical familiarity with TypeScript, React, Vite, Node/Express, Docker, GraphQL/Apollo, Postgres/Aurora, Turborepo/PNPM, AWS, Terraform, Pulumi, Buildkite, Datadog, CloudWatch, and Sentry.
  • The role requires understanding production software well enough to evaluate technical plans, designs, pull requests, estimates, and technical risk.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered)
  • Vision & dental coverage
  • 401(k)
  • HSA / FSA
  • Access to lender partner's employee loan program
  • Remote-first culture — work from wherever you do your best work
  • Flexible time off — we trust you to manage your time