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Engineering Manager
New York. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will build a high-agency engineering team and develop independent owners. You will manage technical direction, product roadmaps, and engineering practices while staying technically active through design and code review.
What you will do
- Hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers
- Define ownership and technical direction across products and systems
- Turn customer behavior and system health into a sequenced roadmap
- Review important designs and pull requests
- Debug difficult failures alongside the team
- Lead technical decisions and incidents
- Prototype or contribute code selectively to resolve ambiguity or unblock the team
- Establish lightweight practices for planning, evaluation, releases, incidents, quality, and learning
- Delegate meaningful decisions
- Make security, privacy, permissions, AI behavior, and recovery part of design
Required qualifications
- At least two years of experience directly managing engineers who build production software
- Experience hiring, delivering feedback, handling performance issues, and developing senior engineers
- Experience building or leading technically demanding products involving complex workflows, data systems, AI/ML, infrastructure, or sensitive information
- Ability to review code and designs with depth and debug alongside the team
- Fluency in using AI engineering tools
- Startup experience
Nice to have
- Experience leading teams that span software, data, ML, evaluation, or infrastructure
- Experience with enterprise data connections, workflow-heavy products, or internal tools
- Experience with de-identification, privacy-sensitive data, compliance, or otherwise high-trust products
- Experience establishing evaluation, incident, release, or quality systems
- Experience growing an engineering organization through an early-stage or high-change period
About the company
Replay is building the first-ever bank for enterprise data to help businesses monetize historical operating data by licensing it to AI and data labs.