Engineering Manager

About Us

At Near, we help top talent in Latin America find remote roles with US companies. Our mission is to create better lives by fostering a remote work culture that transcends borders.

About the Role

Our fast-growing US-based staffing client is looking for a Lead Engineer - a true player-coach who codes, leads, and moves fast. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives in small, high-velocity teams and gets energized by shipping nonstop. You'll evaluate the current engineering setup, bring a clear point of view on how to make things better, and build and automate workflows across every department. You'll work closely with the Co-founders to drive technical decisions and help the company reach its next level.

What you’ll do

• Design and evolve the company's technical architecture and infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability as the business grows.
• Contribute hands-on to both backend (TypeScript/Node.js, Python) and frontend (React) codebases.
• Evaluate the current setup and identify opportunities to improve speed and execution.
• Help the company move faster through better tooling, systems, and AI adoption
• Make critical architectural decisions across the full stack, including AI integrations, automation pipelines, and data systems.
• Architect and implement AI-powered features, including LLM integrations, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
• Build and deploy AI agents that automate workflows and dramatically increase the team's shipping velocity.
• Lead and inspire a small, high-velocity engineering team — setting the technical vision, fostering a culture of ownership, and ensuring the team ships fast and consistently, while remaining hands-on technically
• Establish engineering standards and drive best practices across the team, including AI-first development approaches.
• Conduct code reviews, provide technical mentorship, and support career growth for engineers.
• Collaborate with the Co-founders to translate business goals into sound technical solutions.
• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
• Build and maintain AI-powered workflows and automation systems that serve every department in the business.

Who you are

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a background in fast-paced startups or small teams.
• A hands-on engineer first - you write code every day and have no interest in a purely managerial role.
• Proven experience leading small engineering teams, with clear examples of workflow improvements and technical wins you drove.
• Full-stack proficiency with modern tooling; experience with the current stack (AWS serverless, TypeScript/Node.js, React) is a strong plus.
• Deeply comfortable with AI - you use it to move faster, build agents, and make your team more effective.
• Strong opinions on how to ship quickly with a lean team, and a track record to back them up.
• Experience in recruiting tech, HR tech, automation startups, or dev agencies is a bonus.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (written and spoken).

Bonus Points:

• Background at AI-forward startups (e.g. AI interviewers, automation tools, recruitment tech).
• Experience at development agencies that have worked with recruiting or staffing companies.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, LLMs, or RAG systems.

What’s in It for You?

• Competitive compensation in USD.
• 100% remote role.
• Compensation in USD.
• Time off: 14 vacation days, US working holidays + 4 local floating holidays, birthday off.
• Health insurance stipend.