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You will be expected to balance three responsibilities : \n\n40% Technical Leadership : \n\n- Architecture reviews, design decisions, engineering quality standards, release discipline, and cross-functional technical strategy.\n\n30% People Leadership : \n\n- 1 : 1s, career development, hiring, performance management, team calibration, coaching, and protecting team focus.\n\n30% Hands-on Engineering : \n\n- Continue contributing to code, particularly on complex technical problems, prototypes, integrations, technical spikes, and team unblocking.\n\nKey Responsibilities : \n\n1. Own Engineering Delivery : \n\n- Lead the engineering team and take ownership of end-to-end delivery.\n\n- Break down initiatives into executable technical tasks and sequence work effectively.\n\n- Remove technical and execution blockers.\n\n- Ensure projects are delivered against committed timelines without compromising engineering quality or team sustainability.\n\n- Proactively communicate risks, dependencies, and changes in priorities.\n\n2. Set the Technical Bar : \n\n- Lead architecture and technical design discussions across the product stack.\n\n- Establish and maintain standards for code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and production readiness.\n\n- Drive effective code review practices and engineering discipline.\n\n- Promote strong development, testing, deployment, and release practices.\n\n- Identify technical risks and scalability challenges before they become production issues.\n\n3. Grow and Develop the Team : \n\n- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4 - 6 engineers.\n\n- Conduct regular and meaningful 1 : 1 discussions.\n\n- Provide clear, timely, and constructive feedback.\n\n- Support engineers in defining and achieving their career-development goals.\n\n- Manage performance effectively and handle difficult conversations when required.\n\n- Participate in hiring, onboarding, talent assessment, and team development.\n\n- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.\n\n4. Contribute Technically : \n\n- Remain hands-on and contribute directly to engineering work.\n\n- Design and review architecture across web applications, backend services, and AI/Voice integrations.\n\n- Write code for complex or high-impact problems.\n\n- Develop prototypes and technical spikes where required.\n\n- Support the team in troubleshooting and resolving challenging technical issues.\n\n- Help engineers move forward when they are blocked on critical technical problems.\n\n5. Partner with the CTO : \n\n- Work closely with the CTO to translate product and business priorities into technical plans.\n\n- Provide technical recommendations and highlight key trade-offs early.\n\n- Align engineering priorities with product and business objectives.\n\n- Take ownership of execution and ensure follow-through on technical initiatives.\n\n- Communicate technical challenges, risks, and opportunities effectively to leadership.\n\n6. Build the Engineering Operating Rhythm : \n\n- Establish effective engineering processes that enable the team to scale.\n\n- Drive sprint planning, retrospectives, release planning, and technical reviews.\n\n- Establish an effective release cadence.\n\n- Drive incident reviews and continuous improvement.\n\n- Strengthen engineering practices around production support, on-call, monitoring, and reliability.\n\n- Ensure processes add value rather than becoming unnecessary administrative activities.\n\nRequired Skills & Experience : \n\n- 1.5 - 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 - 2 years in a Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar engineering leadership role.\n\n- Strong programming skills with depth in at least two of the following technologies : Node.js, Python, React.\n\n- Comfortable working with and reviewing code in the third technology.\n\n- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, performance, and reliability.\n\n- Ability to assess technical designs, identify critical assumptions, and anticipate potential system or scalability issues.\n\n- Demonstrated experience conducting 1 : 1s, providing performance feedback, coaching, and developing engineers.\n\n- Experience owning engineering delivery and working toward committed timelines.\n\n- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and delivery challenges clearly and transparently.\n\n- Ability to work across multiple product areas, including SaaS and Voice AI, without requiring deep specialization in both from day one.\n\n- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nGood to Have : \n\n- Working knowledge of Go.\n\n- Experience with real-time or voice systems, including WebRTC, streaming pipelines, or similar technologies.\n\n- Experience with LLM, ASR, and TTS integrations.\n\n- Previous experience working in a startup or early-stage technology environment.\n\n- Experience as a founding engineer, early engineering leader, or first Engineering Manager.\n\n- Track record of hiring engineers and developing them into strong technical or people leaders.\n\n- Experience with observability, on-call, production support, incident management, and incident reviews.\n\n- Experience establishing engineering practices and processes within a growing organization.\n\nCandidate Profile : \n\nWe are looking for an engineering leader who genuinely enjoys both technology and people leadership.\n\nYou should be someone who can : \n\n- Think strategically about architecture while remaining close to the technology.\n\n- Lead and develop engineers while maintaining strong technical credibility.\n\n- Take ownership of delivery and commitments.\n\n- Make pragmatic technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.\n\n- Step into complex technical problems when required.\n\n- Build engineering processes and culture as the organization grows.\n\nThis is a hands-on Engineering Manager role. Candidates looking to move completely away from coding and technical contribution may not be the right fit for this position.\n\nKey Skills : \n\n- Engineering Management, Technical Leadership, Software Architecture, System Design, Node.js, Python, React, Go, SaaS, Voice AI, WebRTC, LLM, ASR, TTS, Backend Development, Code Review, Agile, Team Management, People Development, Observability, On-call, Incident Management\n\nSkills\nNode.js, Python, React.js, Engineering Management, System Design, WebRTC, SaaS","description_format":"text","description_chars":6656,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services","Human Resources","Recruiting & Staffing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T00:07:01Z"}],"liveness":{"score":32,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":0.85,"p_active":0.687,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":24,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["seen:24","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/magnet-hr-tech-digital-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/magnet-hr-tech-digital-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T00:25:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":80,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4920,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}