About the role

Role Overview

Engineering Manager at Tremendous, a fully remote, high-documentation, low-meeting organization. You will lead one of multiple engineering teams (Banking, Catalog, or Prepaid Cards) and be matched to the team where your strengths have the most impact.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow an engineering team (6 teams total; hiring across Banking, Catalog, and Prepaid Cards)
Develop engineers’ careers through 1:1s, thoughtful feedback, and coaching
Own technical quality via code reviews, architecture decisions, and setting team standards
Partner with PMs on how the team works and ship outcomes
Lead on AI adoption while maintaining quality standards

Team Culture & How Work Is Managed

Coaching-focused: developmentally rather than reactively; address patterns, not one-off incidents
Async-first, low-meeting: documentation is the default; no back-to-back meeting culture
Reliable engineering environment: stable infrastructure, controlled tech debt, and a focus on shipping

Requirements

8+ years software engineering experience
At least 2 years leading a team as a manager or tech lead
Strong technical judgment and ability to explain technical approaches
Excellent communication skills, including writing technical briefs and explaining concepts cross-functionally
Product intuition: help determine what to build and articulate product initiatives to engineers
Ability to lead AI adoption without lowering quality standards
Talent magnet with empathy and strong teammate/user focus

Nice to Haves

Stack familiarity (not required): Ruby on Rails, TypeScript + React, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud

Compensation & Logistics

Fully remote with core hours 12–4 EST across North and South America
Base salary: $250,000–$300,000 plus equity and benefits

About Tremendous

Tremendous is a global payouts platform that helps businesses send thousands of payouts to anyone, anywhere, for free. Trusted by organizations such as Google, GitHub, and Notion, it delivers gift cards and money to millions of recipients worldwide, serving teams across research, marketing, HR, and nonprofits. The company operates with a fully remote, high-documentation, low-meeting culture and is profitable and growing without outside investors.

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