The Engineering Manager leads a team of software engineers building Harbor's next-generation compliance platform. This is a player-coach role: you will ship code, build proofs of concept, and review code in the details, while owning predictable delivery, service reliability, and team growth. You will translate product priorities into executable technical plans, guide architecture and AI-assisted workflows, and develop a mature, high-ownership team. The work includes a massive agentic orchestration layer and an evergreen data problem, and it will reach tens of thousands of organizations from day one.
Responsibilities- Lead a team of engineers building Harbor's next-generation platform in TypeScript and Go, including a large-scale agentic orchestration layer and a complex, evergreen data problem.
- Ship code. Build proofs of concept, contribute to the codebase, and review code in the details alongside your team.
- Drive delivery of team commitments by planning, scoping, and unblocking work, giving engineers ownership and trusting them to run with it.
- Coach, mentor, and manage engineers through regular feedback, clear expectations, and performance management, including lifting up struggling performers and managing out when needed.
- Hire and develop high-caliber engineers, and create growth paths for internal talent.
- Shape how the team builds with AI, including agentic coding tools and harnesses, and drive adoption across your team.
- Own the reliability and quality of your team's systems, including incident response and postmortems.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and other engineering leaders to align priorities and resolve trade-offs, and manage distributed team members who work asynchronously (including in Prague).
Requirements- About 1+ year of people management experience in an engineering organization, with a clear philosophy of leadership and management and concrete examples of applying that philosophy.
- Hands-on engineering depth with modern languages (TypeScript, Go, or similar), and the polyglot appetite to pick up new languages, stacks, and legacy code (PHP) as the problem demands.
- Active use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar)
- Comfort managing engineers who may be more senior or higher paid than you, such as staff-level individual contributors.
- Strong passion for building and ongoing learning, with a habit of staying current on how technology and AI are evolving.
- Based in the U.S. with availability aligned to Eastern core business hours (9a-5p). West Coast candidates should expect some early mornings when managing team members in other time zones.
Preferred Skills- Experience with modern database technology (such as SurrealDB) and distributed systems.
- Experience leading agentic transformation of existing code.
- Experience managing distributed teams in different time zones, including asynchronous collaboration.
Compensation:Harbor Compliance's base salary range for this role is listed below. Compensation at the time of offer is based on factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of Harbor Compliance's total compensation package. Other benefits may include health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k), and educational reimbursement. Note that the salary range and benefits apply only to U.S.-based candidates.
The pay range for this role is:
162,930 - 203,663 USD per year (US National)
