Engineering Manager – Rails SaaS Delivery & AI Enablement

Aquifer, Inc; Hanover (NH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquifer, Inc. is seeking a Development Manager to lead engineering capacity, delivery commitments, and technical execution quality across Aquifer's development pods.

You will directly manage all engineers, pod tech leads, and a technical architect, owning release reliability and the delivery/quality dimensions of engineering performance. You will partner with the Lead Product Manager to align roadmap delivery, drive AI development best practices, and grow the Rails-based product with a focus on

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing engineering teams, engineering managers, or senior individual contributors—ideally in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• Track record of owning delivery commitments and release quality for a live SaaS product.
• Experience managing distributed or multi-site engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate the technical judgment and output of senior or staff-level engineers.
• Comfortable setting and enforcing technical and process guardrails for AI-assisted software development.
• Experience running structured capability assessments (e.g., evaluating a technical architect against defined deliverables) is a plus.
• Working familiarity with Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering executes the cadence necessary to deliver on roadmap commitments set by the Lead Product Manager.
• Own engineering scorecard metrics for quality and delivery.
• Directly manage all engineers, including both pod tech leads: performance, career development, hiring, day-to-day support.
• Provide meaningful roles and assignments for engineers through talent and capability mapping.
• Own engineering capacity planning, translating roadmap commitments into realistic delivery plans.
• Own release reliability and production quality across both pods.
• Participate in engineering planning at every cadence.
• Lead the effort with the Technical Architect to adopt AI development best practices to increase velocity and quality.
• Support and grow the existing Rails-based product with attention to technical sustainability and delivery cost.
• Partner with the Lead Product Manager and both tech leads on cross-functional delivery planning.

Skills

Engineering management

Delivery management

Ruby on Rails

Distributed teams

Technical judgment

AI development practices

Jira/Confluence

Tools

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Aquifer, Inc. is seeking a Development Manager to lead engineering capacity, delivery commitments, and technical execution quality across Aquifer's development pods.

You will directly manage all engineers, pod tech leads, and a technical architect, owning release reliability and the delivery/quality dimensions of engineering performance. You will partner with the Lead Product Manager to align roadmap delivery, drive AI development best practices, and grow the Rails-based product with a focus on