Engineering Manager - Orchestration

Employment contract Remote possible: 100% Who we're looking for?: What we're looking for Comfortable leading a cross-functional team. Either you've managed engineers across frontend, mobile and backend before, or you're genuinely open to it and to ramping up on the parts of the stack you know less well A background as a software engineer, with hands-on experience building and shipping production systems. This is a hard requirement. Experience managing a team of engineers, with a track record of building effective development processes and growing individual contributors Technically credible enough to evaluate design decisions, challenge assumptions, and be taken seriously by strong engineers, without needing to be the most technical person in the room Comfortable with operational ownership: on-call culture, incident management, postmortems, and the unglamorous work of keeping systems healthy Clear, direct communication with stakeholders and leadership, including knowing when and how to escalate and when not to Able to operate with meaningful autonomy: you don't need a playbook for every situation, but you know when to ask for one Nice to have: Direct experience managing full-stack or cross-functional teams across both frontend and backend Experience in fintech, payments, or a similarly regulated and high-stakes technical domain Familiarity with distributed systems and the trade-offs that come with high-throughput, high-availability infrastructure