Sr. Engineering Manager

You will lead one of the existing product teams. A dedicated Tech Lead owns architecture; your focus is people, process, and velocity.

Your mission is to help fulfill amptalk’s purpose “Maximize the time people can truly face each other.” You will accelerate delivery of a brand-new product by removing organizational and technical friction while still contributing code where it counts.

Responsibilities

- Team Building & Hiring. Define hiring needs, run interviews, and onboard new engineers to strengthen the team.

- Performance Management & Career Growth. Set individual goals (OKRs/KPIs), run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and support promotions or skill development.

- Culture & Process. Foster an engineering culture and continuously improve team processes.

- Cross-Functional Coordination. Act as liaison between product management, design, QA, and other departments to unblock and align work.

- IC Contribution. Although the Tech Lead retains ultimate responsibility for technical decisions, as an individual contributor the EM must be able to contribute to product development at a coach‐level.

Requirements

- 5+ years leading engineering teams (5 members or more)

- Hands-on web-application development (design, coding, ops)

- Demonstrated ability to drive delivery and cut through ambiguity

- Strong track record in strategic alignment (tying engineering outcomes to business goals)

- Skilled in Systems thinking (designing processes and structures that scale)

- Comfortable toggling between high-level team enablement and hands-on execution when needed

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

- Experience with our stack: Nuxt.js / TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL), AWS CDK

- Large-scale system or legacy refactor projects

- Modern engineering practices (DDD, TDD, Clean Architecture)

- Integrations with Salesforce or other SaaS platforms

- Managing multicultural, distributed teams

- Managing managers