Engineering Manager
Realm Alliance
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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About the role
- Lead and grow a team of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers building real-time systems for active mining operations
- Recruit aggressively — bring your network, identify top talent, and build a team that raises the collective bar
- Define and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, CI/CD, system design, security
- Partner with our CEO on engineering organization design, roadmap prioritization, and long-term technical strategy
- Own the team's delivery end-to-end — from sprint planning to production deploys that run at real mines
- Work directly with users, operators, and the product team to translate real-world industrial challenges into high-impact engineering work
- Foster a culture of ownership, craft, and collaboration on a remote team where trust is the foundation
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep software engineering fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, system design
- 2+ years managing engineers with a track record of growing careers and raising performance bars
- Strong individual contributor background — you've written production code at scale, not just managed people who do
- Confidence across the stack: backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and at least one domain of AI/ML or computer vision
- Proficiency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and an AI-first development mindset
- Startup experience — you've been an early engineering leader and know what it takes to build from scratch
- An established reputation — engineers who have worked with you want to work with you again, and you're prepared to bring them in
- A genuine network of top-tier engineers who trust you and want to build with you — recruiting and getting to build a team ground up is a big part of this role and something that excites you
- Strong hiring instincts and a genuine passion for recruiting: you know great engineers when you see them, and you know how to close them
- Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold a high bar without sacrificing team morale
- Experience building remote engineering cultures where ownership, communication, and autonomy replace process overhead
- Strong alignment on code quality, architecture, and technical debt — and the diplomacy to land them on a team of strong opinions
- Appreciation for continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean abstractions
- Ability to distinguish between premature optimization and genuine technical risk
- Genuine belief that technology can make industrial operations safer, more efficient, and more humane — you don't need to be sold on the mission, you're energized by it
- Comfort with the ambiguity, urgency, and accountability that come with building software that runs at active mines.
- US citizen or permanent resident, based in the US
Benefits
- Utilize a culture that values high agency, deep ownership, collaboration, and autonomy across a fully remote workforce
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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