Growth Foundations: Engineering Manager (AI-Driven)

Trammell Venture Partners, L.L.C.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries. As an Engineering Manager within Growth Foundations, you’ll lead a team of engineers delivering high-impact features, platforms, and tools powering our growth. You’ll stay hands-on and deliver production-grade features personally every day.

Collaborate with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities, and ensure successful execution while driving AI-driven development and scalable backend systems that reach users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment.
• Strong people leadership skills — you invest in coaching, clarity, and empowerment.
• Solid backend foundation, able to engage in design discussions, code reviews, and pragmatic decisions.
• Hands-on with production-grade code and ability to lead by example.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a cross-functional team of engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features.
• Collaborate daily with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities, and ensure seamless execution.
• Keep projects moving forward — maintaining clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent communication with stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance and context to help engineers make sound architectural and implementation decisions.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase, writing production-grade code and setting the bar for quality, reliability, and speed.
• Foster a culture of accountability, trust, and learning — helping the team grow their impact and autonomy.

Skills

People leadership

Backend design

Code reviews

Production-grade coding

AI-driven development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Kraken is a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries. As an Engineering Manager within Growth Foundations, you’ll lead a team of engineers delivering high-impact features, platforms, and tools powering our growth. You’ll stay hands-on and deliver production-grade features personally every day.

Collaborate with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities, and ensure successful execution while driving AI-driven development and scalable backend systems that reach users worldwide.