Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Run the cadences. Planning, standups, and retros. Lightweight, useful, never theater.
• Track everything. Know the state of every active project and surface risk before it becomes a fire.
• Own delivery metrics. Cycle time, review latency, and reliability. Use them humanely, not as a stick.
• Command incidents. Be the first escalation when something breaks, coordinate the response, and run a blameless RCA that actually changes something.
• Grow the team. 1:1s, coaching, and a hiring pipeline that holds a high bar (job descriptions, scorecards, screens).
• You own outcomes. Not the most code. The most shipped, on time, at quality.
• 🔥 The Hard Parts
• This role is not for everyone. Here's what makes it hard
• You own outcomes without writing most of the code. Your impact is the team's output, not your commits.
• Small-team metrics are noisy. You'll need judgment to tell signal from noise.

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