Stack Builders

Engineering Manager

• Manage approximately three to four small client project teams, typically two to four people each, for a total of around 8–10 people.
• Run 1:1s, maintain documented assessments and growth plans, and establish clear promotion criteria.
• Ensure engineers understand expectations, evaluation processes, decision ownership, and company direction.
• Address concerns, escalate unresolved issues with named owners, and close the loop.
• Propose project training allocations, recommend pay changes and promotions, and explain decisions to the team.
• Recognize excellent work and connect it to the company mission and values.
• Own onboarding quality for direct reports and participate in engineering hiring.
• Potentially serve as Senior Technical Lead depending on the project and technical level.
• Shape feature areas, acceptance criteria, milestones, scope, and margin where Stack Builders owns the outcome.
• Align team work with client product-owner priorities where the client leads the product.
• Give developers ownership of product areas and split refinement with business analysts where applicable.
• Run client cadence, deliver honest news early, and bring commercial questions to the commercial owner.
• Ensure evidence of correctness exists before work is considered complete.
• Use AI tools daily, direct frontier models and agents, and review their output.
• Own each project's AI working agreement covering AI usage, intake, adversarial review, automated evaluation, security, and rollback.
• Help team members adopt AI through pairing and practice.
• Report intended actions and risks to leadership and maintain a current view of team skills, capacity, and readiness.
• Report to the CTO and collaborate with the Head of Engineering, Head of Client Services, HR, and the AI core group.

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