Engineering Manager

About Vulcan Labs:Powered by Vulcan Labs, Chat Smith is a leading productivity application (ranked among the Top 50 in its category) that serves tens of millions of users globally. Designed to elevate how individuals and teams work, Chat Smith merges advanced AI technologies with a clean, intuitive interface to empower creativity, productivity, and insight.With over 65 million users worldwide, joining the team means you’ll be working on a product that not only scales to millions of users but also has real impact across regions and use-cases. Role Summary:We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who combines deep backend/platform infrastructure expertise with leadership capability to grow a team and build production-grade systems. You’ll own the roadmap, architecture and delivery of our core backend ecosystem (micro-services) as well as our central data warehouse/analytics layer. Your mission: enable fast, secure, reliable service delivery for our product-teams and set the foundation for Vulcan Labs’ next stage of growth. Responsibility:As an Engineering Manager in our team, you will:Lead across microservices and Data Platform; align priorities, ship reliably, unblock quickly.Translate product goals into backlogs and milestones with scope, dependencies, and risks tracked.Build a trusted platform others integrate easily using clear contracts, predictable changes, and solid documentation.Provide tech oversight for services: boundaries, messaging, idempotency, migrations; prefer simple patterns and ownership.Shape data pipelines end to end; define contracts, keep pipelines stable, govern access, enable analytics.Improve developer experience with golden paths, templates, automation, and dashboards that shorten feedback loops.Align security and privacy practices: access controls, secrets, data handling, and audits proportional to stage and risk.Make decisions on team development and take ownership of outcomes; commit to tradeoffs and learn quickly.