Engineering Manager

Job description

Mostly remote position (cowork once a week) - From Buenos Aires, Argentina Ryz Labs is looking for an **Engineering Manager**to join our client's fast-moving team, and help shape the next chapter of their project. You will build, mentor, and scale a high-impact engineering team, playing a key role in shaping their technical direction, improving engineering excellence, and ensuring they deliver reliable, elegant products at speed. **This role is expected to be highly travel-intensive, particularly in the first few months, so a valid U.S. Travel Visa is required.** **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead, mentor, and coach engineers across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. - Partner with other leads to define priorities, scope projects, and support effective planning. - Facilitate architectural discussions and provide technical direction. - Lead AI integration for the project, and the building of new AI tools to increase speed and efficiency. - Ensure strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, documentation, and reliability. - Oversee project execution: unblock teams, manage timelines, and coordinate cross-functional efforts. - Support team growth through hiring, onboarding, and building a high-performing, inclusive culture. - Run and refine engineering processes, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and 1:1s. - Drive continuous improvements in velocity, collaboration, technical excellence, and communication. - Collaborate with leadership to define long-term technical strategy and scaling plans. - Advocate for the team and manage expectations across stakeholders. **Qualifications:** - 5+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership roles. - Valid U.S. Travel Visa and passport, since trips to NYC will be expected, especially in the first few months of the role (costs will be covered by the company) - Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, architectures, and delivery workflows across web or platform teams. - Ability to provide technical direction, review engineering decisions, and guide system design. - Proven success in hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing engineers across multiple seniority levels. - Strong communication, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with product, design, and business partners. - Experience leading teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where priorities, processes, and systems evolve rapidly. - Ability to balance execution speed, technical quality, and long-term strategic thinking **Desired Qualifications:** - Experience with distributed systems, DevOps practices, or cloud architectures at a conceptual level. - Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and reliability best practices. **About RYZ Labs:** RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world. Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years. At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists. **Our values and what to expect:** - Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer. - Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated. - Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. - Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect. - Frugality - being frugal and cost conscious helps us do more with less. - Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. - Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be.