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This is a hands-on management role for a technical leader who can create clarity, develop engineers, manage performance, and help the team deliver secure and reliable enterprise software.\nThe Technical Engineering Manager will work closely with Product, Technical Delivery and Support, Security, and company leadership to translate business and customer needs into realistic engineering priorities and outcomes.\nAbout Hanzo\nHanzo helps corporate legal and compliance teams understand and manage dynamic web enterprise content. Our software supports their internal teams with SEC/FINRA, PCAOB, FTC and other compliance audits they undergo with defensible preservation, targeted collection, and efficient review of content from social media and complex websites.\nThe role\nYou will serve as both the people manager and technical leader for the Chronicle engineering team. You will translate company and product priorities into clear team goals, establish effective ways of working, and remain close enough to the technology to guide decisions and support engineers.\nYour primary responsibility is working closely with Product to obtain roadmap priorities, helping them break the epics down to individual tickets and enabling the team to succeed. You will also contribute directly when appropriate by reviewing designs and code, supporting complex technical work, resolving blockers, and helping manage production incidents.\nThis is not intended to be a full-time manager or individual contributor role. It is a dual-role for a small team. Hands-on technical work should support the team’s effectiveness, while coaching them, keeping them accountable and supporting their career growth.\nPeople leadership responsibilities\nServe as the direct line manager for assigned engineers and take responsibility for their day-to-day employee experience.\nEstablish clear expectations, responsibilities, objectives, and accountability.\nHold monthly one-to-one meetings and provide timely, specific, and constructive feedback.\nCoach and develop team members through individual growth goals, stretch opportunities, and practical support.\nSet individual objectives and development plans, assess progress, address performance concerns promptly and fairly, and recognize strong contributions.\nPrepare evidence-based performance reviews and lead review conversations.\nApprove time-off requests while balancing employee wellbeing, team coverage, and delivery commitments.\nSupport hiring, onboarding, career development,\nAddressing people matters in partnership with HR.\nMonitor workload, engagement, wellbeing, and team dynamics.\nCreate an inclusive and respectful environment in which engineers can raise concerns, challenge ideas, learn, and do their best work.\nLead effectively across different countries, cultures, and time zones in a remote environment.\nDelivery and team leadership responsibilities\nOwn the team’s delivery commitments and establish realistic plans based on Product’s list of priorities, capacity, dependencies, technical debt, and risk.\nTranslate product, customer, architecture, and business priorities into clear engineering outcomes.\nFacilitate planning, prioritization, and execution while maintaining clear ownership within the team.\nRemove blockers and escalate delivery, resource, or technical risks early.\nMonitor progress and communicate status, risks, trade-offs, and changes clearly to Product and leadership..\nWork closely with Product to balance new product development, customer commitments, defects, support bugs, cloud performance and cost, technical debt, and operational improvements.\nStrengthen engineering practices related to estimation, documentation, testing, code review, release management, incident response, and continuous improvement.\nUse delivery and operational data to identify recurring problems and improve team effectiveness.\nCoordinate work across Product, Technical Delivery and Support, Security, and other engineering teams.\nTechnical leadership responsibilities\nWork closely with leadership and Product to guide architecture, system design, and implementation decisions across the team’s areas of responsibility.\nMaintain appropriate standards for secure, reliable, maintainable, documented, testable, and observable software.\nReview technical designs and code to provide feedback to your team members and continue to improve the effectiveness of the team. \nHelp engineers evaluate trade-offs involving reliability, performance, scale, security, delivery speed, and 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