Vivun

Engineering Manager

Vivun

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

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