Location: Remote Working Hours: Must provide strong overlap with U.S. Eastern Time Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire Reporting To: Head of Engineering Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a remote full-stack development team for a U.S.-based technology company. The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership, technical depth, and delivery management experience across applications built with C#, Java, Ruby, and AWS. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineering leader who can guide architecture and technical decisions, develop high-performing teams, and ensure the predictable delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable software products. Key Responsibilities • Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of full-stack developers, quality engineers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads. • Manage the complete software-development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. • Own sprint planning, delivery commitments, resource allocation, and engineering execution. • Provide technical direction for applications and services developed using C#, .NET, Java, Ruby, and modern web technologies. • Guide the design of scalable, secure, cloud-native applications hosted on AWS. • Review system architecture, technical designs, and complex code changes. • Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding, testing, documentation, security, and deployment. • Collaborate with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into executable technical plans. • Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and develop appropriate mitigation plans. • Improve development velocity, product quality, platform reliability, and release predictability using measurable engineering metrics. • Promote automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps best practices. • Manage production issues and ensure timely root-cause analysis and corrective actions. • Conduct performance reviews, provide regular feedback, support career development, and participate in hiring and team-building activities. • Communicate engineering progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes clearly to U.S.-based stakeholders. • Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. • 9+ years of software-engineering experience, including at least 2 years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role. • Experience managing remote or geographically distributed development teams. • Strong technical experience in at least two of the following technologies, with the ability to oversee solutions across the others: – C# and .NET – Java and related frameworks – Ruby and Ruby on Rails • Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture. • Experience designing and delivering full-stack web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. • Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, performance optimization, and system integration. • Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines. • Working knowledge of containers, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and application observability. • Strong understanding of software security, scalability, availability, and performance. • Demonstrated success delivering enterprise software within defined timelines and quality expectations. • Excellent leadership, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to work remotely with consistent availability during U.S. Eastern Time business hours. • Good to have: Experience enabling AI within an organization or team, with a trailblazer mindset and an AI-first approach to problem-solving.