Engineering Manager

NaviStone, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Paid holidays

Employee events

Job summary

NaviStone, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH, is seeking an Engineering Manager to guide a small team of application engineers. You will stay hands-on with front-end and back-end work using TypeScript, React, and Node.js while shaping processes, roadmaps, and production readiness.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive agile ceremonies, and partner with product to ship impactful features. The role emphasizes scaling team practices, improving cycle time, and embracing AI-assisted development to boost velocity and

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading a small team.
• Hands-on work with TS/React/Node.js across the full stack.
• Strong API design skills for synchronous and asynchronous services.
• Experience in agile development and roadmap prioritization.
• Product-minded communicator with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 2–4 person application engineering team while remaining hands-on.
• Own team processes: agile ceremonies, cycle time, blockers, releases.
• Mentor and onboard engineers, conduct 1:1s and feedback.
• Collaborate with product managers to shape a realistic roadmap.
• Promote agentic engineering practices and AI-assisted tooling.
• Improve velocity and quality using AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

RESTful API design

Agile practices

People management

Product collaboration

AI-assisted development

Tools

Snowflake

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Delivering growth for marketers is what NaviStone is all about. For B2C brands in considered-purchase verticals, we deliver proven, time-tested results. The NaviStone platform empowers marketers by finding, activating, and converting lucrative audiences, with incredible impact!

The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide a team small team (2-4) of application engineers building NaviStone's platform in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, while staying hands-on with front-end and back-end development yourself. You'll own how your team works, strengthening agile practices, improving cycle time, and partnering closely with product and stakeholders to ship the right things well.

What You'll Do

• You will lead a team of application engineers while staying hands-on with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, writing and reviewing code and setting the bar for quality, testing, and RESTful API design across synchronous and asynchronous services.
• You will own how your team works, running agile ceremonies, improving cycle time, removing blockers, and tightening the path from idea to production.
• You will manage your team's people side, including hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, feedback, and mentoring, and support each engineer's growth.
• You will partner with product managers and stakeholders to shape a realistic roadmap, and represent your team's progress and risks to engineering leadership.
• You will push the team forward on agentic engineering practices, building the team's skills with AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
• You will continuously look for ways to use AI tools more efficiently and effectively, increasing your team's velocity and quality.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• You have led, mentored, or managed engineers before, whether as a team lead, tech lead, or engineering manager, and know how to coach and grow a team.
• You have strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js across the full stack, and understand best practices for RESTful API design, both synchronous and asynchronous.
• You have worked on agile development teams and have a track record of improving how a team ships, whether that's cycle time, predictability, or process friction.
• You are product-minded and communicate clearly with product managers, stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• You can balance hands-on coding with the people and process work of leading a team, and prioritize across your roadmap, technical debt, and production support.
• Experience with data pipelines, medallion architecture, Snowflake, or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is a plus but not required.

Location

Cincinnati, OH in Over-the-Rhine

Hybrid role, in office 2 days per week

Develop Your Best You, And Reinvigorate For What's Next

NaviStone's benefits, programs, and perks are purpose-built to help you grow stronger professionally, and personally. We offer generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits for you and your family.

We never stop growing, and we never stop learning. Want to explore AI? Develop new coding skills? Become a better presenter? Grow your leadership skills? Learn advanced yoga? We offer countless professional and personal development opportunities to fuel your ambitions.

We're a Rocketship, but even Rocketships need rest! We work hard, and we go fast. But we also recharge! With unlimited vacation, a generous number of paid holidays, and fun employee events throughout the year, you can refuel and reinvigorate for the incredible journey ahead.