Kira

Engineering Manager

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “New York or San Francisco”
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About this role

Kira is hiring for a Engineering Manager role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
  • 8+ years professional engineering experience, including designing, shipping, and operating consequential production systems.
  • 2+ years managing mid, senior and lead level software engineers
  • Technical depth comparable to a strong Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer, with recent hands-on experience to review substantive changes, investigate production behavior, and write targeted code when useful.
  • Strong system design and debugging skills across architecture, APIs, data models, distributed systems, performance, and failure modes.
  • A track record of developing engineers into more independent owners, including senior engineers or technical leads.
  • Experience giving difficult feedback, managing underperformance, recognizing strong performance, and running substantive career conversations.
  • Strong execution judgment — framing ambiguous problems, sequencing work, managing dependencies, reducing scope intelligently, and operating without heavy process.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.