Engineering Manager - Realtime

📋 Description

• Lead the Realtime engineering team across people management, technical direction, delivery, and
• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture within a globally distributed environment, conducting
• Own the team's hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager, leading first-round interviews and partnering
• Own the team's roadmap and project execution using Linear to establish priorities, clear
• Manage incoming requests and Slack triage, deciding priorities and maintaining alignment with
• Coordinate the team's response to support tickets and ensure service-level objectives (SLOs) are

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of engineering experience, with sufficient technical depth to engage with
• At least 3 years of experience managing remote engineering teams.
• Previous experience leading a team building and operating a low-latency, high-connection service
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, and
• Experience leading teams through production incidents affecting customer-facing services and
• Experience understanding developer needs for real-time APIs or SDKs and shipping such products to

🎁 Benefits

• Fully remote work: Work from anywhere in the world, with a WeWork membership or coworking allowance.
• Equity ownership: Receive an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) allocation.
• Technology allowance: Budget for laptop, monitor, headphones, and other tools.
• Health coverage: Health insurance fully covered for employees and 80% covered for dependents.
• Annual company off-sites: Join colleagues for a week of connection in a different city each year.
• Flexible working arrangements: Asynchronous working culture with autonomy over schedule.