Engineering Manager

Why join us?
Handoff is the AI agent that runs a construction company. We help remodelers automate estimating, streamline operations, and win more work - backed by real-time cost data, intuitive design, and workflows that “speak contractor.” With over 10,000 monthly active users and $6B in annualized project volume already flowing through our platform, we’re becoming the trusted partner for the people who build our homes.
We are backed by $25M+ raised from Y Combinator, Initialized, and Greycroft. Our team is distributed across hubs in Austin, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and we are deeply focused on building intuitive, high-impact solutions that make a real difference for our users.

Engineering Manager at Handoff
You will play a critical role in scaling both our product and our platform. You will be responsible not only for people and delivery, but also for the long-term health, reliability, and evolution of our systems as we grow into an enterprise-grade, AI-native platform.
You will work closely with Product, Tech Leads, and other Engineering Managers to ensure we deliver quickly while actively protecting scalability, performance, reliability, and developer velocity.

What you'll do:
• Lead and Mentor: Manage and develop a team of senior engineers through regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, coaching, and clear career development paths.
• Platform Ownership: Maintain a strong understanding of our architecture and codebase to proactively identify technical debt, architectural risks, and scalability concerns, and ensure clear plans exist to address them.
• Delivery & Sustainability Balance: Own the balance between product delivery, platform improvements, and technical debt reduction in each development cycle.
• Epic Leadership: Partner with Product Managers and Tech Leads to define epics, scope work, sequence initiatives, and ensure high-quality delivery with clear ownership and milestones.
• Execution Excellence: Continuously improve engineering processes to support predictable delivery, fast feedback loops, and high-quality output.
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to engineering and company strategy by shaping the engineering roadmap, identifying technical risks early, and planning for future scale.
• Cross-functional Communication: Communicate clearly with Product, Design, Data, GTM, and Executive Leadership about progress, trade-offs, risks, and decisions.
• Foster an AI-First Engineering Culture: Champion the use of AI as a productivity multiplier for engineers, helping define standards, best practices, and guardrails for AI-assisted development.
• Hands-on Work: You are expected to dive into code, data, debugging, or architectural work when it unblocks delivery, clarifies technical direction, or reduces long-term platform risk. This role requires technical credibility with senior engineers.
• Local Team Leadership: Help grow and anchor our LatAm engineering presence, supporting hiring, onboarding, and the development of a strong local engineering culture.

About You:
• Bachelor's degree (or similar) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership position.
• Proven ability to coach senior engineers, partner effectively with Tech Leads, and hold teams accountable to high standards.
• Demonstrated experience owning systems over time, including making trade-offs between speed and sustainability, managing technical debt, and improving reliability as usage and complexity grow.
• Comfortable working in an AI-first engineering environment and excited about using AI to improve developer productivity and product quality.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Strong technical background with experience building and scaling modern web, mobile and backend systems. Familiarity with our stack (React Native, TypeScript, Expo, AWS, PostgreSQL, and AI APIs) is a plus.
• This role requires comfort with ambiguity, incomplete information, and making high-impact technical decisions without perfect answers.
• Proficiency in English is a must.

What we offer:
• 💸 Competitive salary in USD
• 💰 Attractive stock options
• 🌴 Unlimited PTO
• 🚛 Relocation allowance
• 👨‍💻 Top-notch equipment
• 🧳 Team offsites around the world - we've already been to more than 5 countries!

If you’re excited about leading high-performing engineering teams and shaping backend and infrastructure decisions that power real product impact, we’d love to hear from you!
Please note that we will only consider applications submitted in English.