Puzzle 🧩🚀

Engineering Manager

Puzzle 🧩🚀

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers with clear expectations and a consistently high bar
  • Hire exceptional talent and partner with recruiting to design rigorous, high-signal interview processes that increase talent density
  • Coach engineers on career growth, scope expansion, and technical depth
  • Stay close to the code- contributing to architecture, design, and implementation when needed
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive technical strategy- balancing speed, scalability, and correctness
  • Build a strong partnership with Product, shaping roadmap decisions and clarifying tradeoffs early
  • Increase engineering velocity through better systems, prioritization, and AI-enabled developer workflows
  • Identify and remove technical and organizational bottlenecks
  • Hold cross-functional partners accountable while maintaining strong, high-trust relationships
  • Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, and thoughtful execution

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software
  • 2+ years of engineering management experience in a B2B SaaS environment
  • Strong track record of hiring and developing high-performing engineers
  • Experience building structured, high-quality interview processes
  • Technically credible and comfortable in a player-coach role
  • Demonstrated ability to increase team output without proportionally increasing headcount
  • Strong architectural judgment across backend and/or product systems
  • Deep partnership experience with Product and PMs
  • Comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous problems
  • Deep familiarity with modern developer workflows, including practical use of AI-assisted development tools
  • High ownership mindset with a bias toward impact
  • Fintech experience is a plus
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • 100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans
  • 10 observed holidays and a flexible PTO policy so you can recharge
  • $1000 home office budget to get you set up for success
  • $2400 co-working budget for face time with your colleagues
  • $600 learning and development budget
  • 401K so you can save for your future
  • And much more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentengineering managementarchitecturedesignimplementationinterview processesteam output optimizationbackend systemsproduct systemsAI-assisted development
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationaccountabilityownershipurgencyexecutionproblem-solvingcommunicationtrust-building