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Engineering Manager, Product Engineering - New York

Reflexivity
Location
New York
Posted
9 days ago
Department
Data & Engineering
Salary
$200,000 - $250,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Significant software engineering experience.
  • Meaningful experience managing software engineers.
  • Experience managing senior, opinionated technical people.
  • Strong performance-management and coaching skills.
  • Experience hiring engineers in a competitive market.
  • Comfortable resolving conflict directly.
Nice to have
  • AI / LLM-enabled products.
  • Agent or workflow systems.
  • Fintech or institutional finance.
  • Developer-heavy or technically complex products.
  • Golang / distributed systems.
What the job really is

As an Engineering Manager for Product Engineering, you will oversee teams responsible for building user-facing and reasoning layers of a product called Reflexivity. Your role focuses on coaching and developing engineers, managing performance, resolving conflicts, and ensuring the teams can grow effectively without becoming bogged down by processes. You will collaborate closely with Technical Leads and Product Managers while maintaining a lightweight management style that allows engineers to focus on their work.

Benefits
  • Compensation: $200,000 - $250,000
  • Equity included.
  • In-office / hybrid expectations aligned with the NYC engineering team.
Things to weigh
  • No salary listed beyond the range of $200,000 - $250,000.
  • The role emphasizes a non-process-heavy management style, which may not suit all candidates.
  • Technical authority is separate from management authority, which could be a shift for some managers.
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