Obviant

Engineering Manager

• Hire, onboard, and develop world-class engineers.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, regular feedback, and career development support.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, transparency, and psychological safety.
• Drive team health and engagement through effective rituals, retrospectives, and performance processes.
• Empower engineers to take initiative, own outcomes, and grow their capabilities.
• Partner with senior engineers and architects to define technical direction and long-term strategy.
• Guide teams through design tradeoffs, architecture decisions, and implementation quality.
• Ensure effective planning, estimation, and reliable execution of engineering work.
• Maintain accountability for system performance, scalability, reliability, and technical debt management.
• Drop into a tactical role when needed to unblock the team or deliver business-critical outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders to refine requirements and set priorities.
• Translate business and mission goals into clear engineering outcomes and execution plans.
• Ensure teams understand user value — delivering iteratively, measurably, and with urgency.
• Uphold a strong connection between engineering decisions and customer impact.
• Establish working practices that support velocity, quality, and transparency.
• Lead planning, standups, reviews, and retrospective cycles.
• Manage resourcing, capacity planning, roadmap execution, and cross-team dependencies.
• Monitor KPIs for delivery, system reliability, team health, and operational excellence — driving continuous improvement.