Remote Engineering Manager: Travel FX Platform

Bjak; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions across the region. This role requires a strong technical leader who can guide engineers, shape architecture, and drive from idea to production.

You’ll be responsible for both team quality and the speed and reliability of what gets shipped. You should be comfortable working across people, product and technology—setting a high engineering bar while delivering real customer and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability.
• Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring fast shipping with reliability and quality.
• Collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to translate problems into technical execution.
• Drive architectural and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems.
• Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and reliability.
• Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical decisions.
• Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps early and raise the team's engineering and execution bar.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to move faster at scale.
• Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor, incident resolve, root cause and prevent recurrence.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Production systems

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Job description

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions across the region. This role requires a strong technical leader who can guide engineers, shape architecture, and drive from idea to production.

You’ll be responsible for both team quality and the speed and reliability of what gets shipped. You should be comfortable working across people, product and technology—setting a high engineering bar while delivering real customer and