[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Realm

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who leads with people first. You'll be one of the first engineering leaders at Realm, working directly with our CEO to build a world-class engineering organization from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity: the chance to shape culture, process, and technical direction at a company that is genuinely changing how the world's mines operate.

What sets you apart isn't just your management track record — it's your reputation. Great engineers want to work with you. They've seen what you can do, they've been part of something you helped build, and they want to do it again.

If you're the kind of leader people follow from company to company, we want to meet you. You know how to hire, how to grow people, and how to build a team that's more than the sum of its parts. You create environments where engineers do their best work — and you've done it before.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a team of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers building real-time systems for active mining operations
• Recruit aggressively — bring your network, identify top talent, and build a team that raises the collective bar
• Define and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, CI/CD, system design, security
• Partner with our CEO on engineering organization design, roadmap prioritization, and long-term technical strategy
• Own the team's delivery end-to-end — from sprint planning to production deploys that run at real mines
• Work directly with users, operators, and the product team to translate real-world industrial challenges into high-impact engineering work
• Foster a culture of ownership, craft, and collaboration on a remote team where trust is the foundation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep software engineering fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, system design
• 5+ years managing engineers with a track record of growing careers and raising performance bars
• Strong individual contributor background — you've written production code at scale, not just managed people who do
• Confidence across the stack: backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and at least one domain of AI/ML or computer vision
• Proficiency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and an AI-first development mindset
• Startup experience — you've been an early engineering leader and know what it takes to build from scratch
• An established reputation — engineers who have worked with you want to work with you again, and you're prepared to bring them in
• A genuine network of top-tier engineers who trust you and want to build with you
• Strong hiring instincts and a genuine passion for recruiting
• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold a high bar without sacrificing team morale
• Experience building remote engineering cultures where ownership, communication, and autonomy replace process overhead
• Strong alignment on code quality, architecture, and technical debt
• Appreciation for continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean abstractions
• Ability to distinguish between premature optimization and genuine technical risk
• Genuine belief that technology can make industrial operations safer, more efficient, and more humane
• Comfort with the ambiguity, urgency, and accountability that come with building software that runs at active mines

Requirements

• US citizen or permanent resident, based in the US

Process

• Recruiter screen (15 mins)
• Intro call with Eugene, CEO & Cofounder / hiring manager (20 mins)
• Take home tech assessment (1hr)
• Technical with Eng (1hr) + Chat with Head of Ops (30 mins)
• Chat with Eng (30 mins) + Chat with Designer (30 mins)
• Final Technical with Eugene (1.5hrs) + Chat with Cofounder Myles (45 mins)