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The Job
About Vulcan Labs:
Powered by Vulcan Labs, Chat Smith is a leading productivity application (ranked among the Top 50 in its category) that serves tens of millions of users globally. Designed to elevate how individuals and teams work, Chat Smith merges advanced AI technologies with a clean, intuitive interface to empower creativity, productivity, and insight.
With over 65 million users worldwide, joining the team means you'll be working on a product that not only scales to millions of users but also has real impact across regions and use-cases.
Role Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who combines deep backend/platform infrastructure expertise with leadership capability to grow a team and build production-grade systems. You'll own the roadmap, architecture and delivery of our core backend ecosystem (micro-services) as well as our central data warehouse/analytics layer. Your mission: enable fast, secure, reliable service delivery for our product-teams and set the foundation for Vulcan Labs' next stage of growth.
Responsibility:
As an Engineering Manager in our team, you will:
- Lead across microservices and Data Platform; align priorities, ship reliably, unblock quickly.
- Translate product goals into backlogs and milestones with scope, dependencies, and risks tracked.
- Build a trusted platform others integrate easily using clear contracts, predictable changes, and solid documentation.
- Provide tech oversight for services: boundaries, messaging, idempotency, migrations; prefer simple patterns and ownership.
- Shape data pipelines end to end; define contracts, keep pipelines stable, govern access, enable analytics.
- Improve developer experience with golden paths, templates, automation, and dashboards that shorten feedback loops.
- Align security and privacy practices: access controls, secrets, data handling, and audits proportional to stage and risk.
- Make decisions on team development and take ownership of outcomes; commit to tradeoffs and learn quickly.
Your Skills and Experience
Requirements:
- Proven record shipping microservices system to production, owning end-to-end outcomes with small, focused teams.
- Solid grasp of microservices and data pipelines; review designs, ask pragmatic questions, guide tradeoffs.
- Familiar with backend platform ecosystems on GCP, leveraging Firebase (Crashlytics, Remote Config), integrating API gateways and auth/messaging layers (Endpoints/Apigee, IAM, Pub/Sub), and running CI/CD with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and analytics platforms like Sentry, Coralogix, Grafana, and Google Cloud Logs or Google Firebase.
- Startup attitude: prioritize ruthlessly, cut scope safely, keep momentum, learn fast from experiments and feedback
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Experience leading engineers; strong people management with practiced coaching, hiring, feedback, and motivation.
- Familiarity with Go Programming Language is a big plus.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Grow Yourself: Work with young, talented teammates on global apps across a diverse portfolio and varying app sizes (Mainly in AI domain)
- Attractive Package: 13th-month salary, performance bonus, and biannual performance reviews based on achievements and contributions.
- Healthy Culture: 12 days of annual leave and 5 days of sick leave, health-care insurance, annual health check, and a dedicated team-bonding budget.
- Well-equipped Facility: MacBook provided, with an additional monitor available if needed.
- Diverse Activities: Complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks; company trips; team-building activities; and quarterly happy-hour events.
- Innovative Environment: Flexible working hours, one remote day per month, seminars and internal sharing sessions, and a culture with no barriers to ideas.
