
Engineering Manager
Vivun
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Grow and build a high-performing, diverse team through recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training.
- Coach engineers on their day-to-day work and career aspirations, conduct regular 1:1s, and evaluate performance, setting actionable goals to push themselves, the team, and the company.
- Collaborate closely with Product to shape goals, milestones, requirements, and sequencing, bringing engineering teams into alignment.
- Provide strong technical leadership and set direction for our architecture and stack to ensure the team and systems perform well at scale.
- Be accountable for team plans, deliverables, and execution.
- Lead AI-native development practices: support rapid iteration with strong guardrails, enabling teams to ship, measure, and improve AI experiences continuously.
- Drive quality and reliability for AI experiences by promoting robust evaluation, testing, monitoring, and feedback loops across real-world usage.
- Foster a culture of empathy for users and hold a high bar for excellence to ensure teams deliver products that solve the most important problems and delight our users.
- Foster an inclusive environment with a high degree of trust and transparency among team members and leadership.
- Help team members build strong, meaningful relationships through virtual and in-person culture initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- 5+ years of experience managing and leading engineering teams
- Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient, and observable distributed systems and services
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Strong hands-on skills; can drill deep into system design or implementation
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience
- Experience working in high-growth startup environments
- Experience managing remote software engineering teams is preferred
- Experience building AI-powered products (LLMs, voice, agentic workflows, retrieval, evaluation frameworks, or human-in-the-loop systems) is a strong plus
- Familiarity with responsible AI practices (safety, privacy, data governance, and model risk mitigation) is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive salary and full health benefits
- Stock Options at a well-funded, pre-IPO company on a fast growth track
- Flexible work schedules and work from anywhere at a fully remote company
- Unlimited PTO with two weeks designated as “quiet period” each year
- An experienced team that will fight beside you in the trenches to accomplish your goals
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringdistributed systemssystem designAI-powered productslarge-scale systemsresilient systemsobservable systemshuman-in-the-loop systemsevaluation frameworksvoice technology
Soft Skills
team leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationempathytrusttransparencyrelationship buildingperformance evaluationgoal setting
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science