Engineering Manager (Hands-On) — Drive Delivery & Growth

JobCubby; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HumanSignal is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead delivery, architecture, and team growth. You will stay close to code while guiding a startup-scale engineering effort across Python/Django, TypeScript/React, and a Kubernetes-backed stack.

You will balance long-term product goals with customer deadlines and coach engineers to reach their potential. The role emphasizes ownership, scalable processes, and measurable outcomes as part of building our annotation and data-platform workloads.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience managing engineers with strong technical judgment.
• Comfortable in a startup environment and with coding agents.
• Ability to balance long-term product goals with customer deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage the engineering team responsible for delivery, performance, and growth.
• Stay hands-on with code and architecture to shape technical decisions.
• Plan, scope, and ship quality software aligned to a roadmap.
• Champion efficient processes, remove blockers, and enable ownership.

Skills

Engineering management

People leadership

Hands-on coding

System design

Startup experience

Tools

Python/Django

TypeScript/React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

HumanSignal is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead delivery, architecture, and team growth. You will stay close to code while guiding a startup-scale engineering effort across Python/Django, TypeScript/React, and a Kubernetes-backed stack.

You will balance long-term product goals with customer deadlines and coach engineers to reach their potential. The role emphasizes ownership, scalable processes, and measurable outcomes as part of building our annotation and data-platform workloads.