Engineering Manager

Localize is seeking an energetic, growth-minded Engineering Manager to join their US-based remote team. In this role, you will oversee a team of software engineers, ensuring high-quality outcomes while driving delivery and maintaining engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a remote engineering team with a clear focus on performance, accountability, and delivery
• Set expectations for execution quality, timelines, and technical standards; hold teams accountable to outcomes
• Oversee the quality of engineering deliverables, including code, testing, debugging, and deployment
• Identify performance gaps, technical debt, and delivery risks early and take decisive action to resolve them
• Drive performance through clear expectations, direct feedback, and technical leadership
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope in a distributed environment
• Implement pragmatic execution and project management approaches to mitigate risk and maintain momentum
• Continuously improve engineering efficiency by eliminating friction, unnecessary process, and bottlenecks
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, maintainable software solutions; review code and contribute hands-on where necessary to unblock progress
• Operate with high alignment to leadership priorities, balancing speed, quality, and long-term system health

Requirements:

• Technical engineering leader with 3+ years of people management experience and 5+ years in software engineering
• Proven ability to lead remote engineering teams with strong execution discipline
• Track record of driving results, holding teams accountable, and navigating complex technical challenges
• Able to make and communicate difficult decisions that support delivery execution, product quality, and company objectives
• Strong ability to identify roadblocks quickly and take ownership of resolving them
• Experience setting clear goals, measuring progress, and driving continuous performance improvement
• Hands-on leader who can dive into architecture, code, and technical decision-making when required
• Experience hiring, evaluating, and building high-performing engineering teams
• Confident operating without ego and in close alignment with executive leadership
• Experience building and scaling SaaS applications or platforms
• Experience with these specific technologies is a plus, but not strictly required
• Frontend: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Redux, Less
• Backend: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Mongoose
• Datastores: MongoDB (Mongoose.js ODM), Redis, S3
• Infrastructure: AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, ElastiCache, CloudFlare, CloudFront, Route 53, etc.)
• DevOps / Misc: Git/GitHub, Jira, CircleCI, Mocha
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar)
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and token management
• Experience designing or implementing RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector search
• Familiarity with emerging LLM infrastructure patterns and protocols (e.g., MCP, tool/function calling, agents)