Engineering Manager - Affnook (Remote)

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1d • Remote

About The Position

Affnook is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team building and operating its affiliate marketing software for iGaming brands and operators. The platform combines affiliate management, attribution tracking, campaign management, and anti-fraud capabilities, with two-way API integrations to third-party tools. Affnook serves more than 100 iGaming clients globally.

The Engineering Manager will lead and develop the backend team, own delivery against the roadmap, and ensure production systems meet strong standards for architecture, testing, and readiness. The role includes technical decision-making across services, data stores, and messaging, while partnering with senior engineers and tech leads on RFCs, incidents, and the technical roadmap.

This position also has significant customer and operational responsibilities: communicating technical issues clearly, managing customer escalations, driving incident response and follow-through, and ensuring the team can deploy, roll back, and debug services. The team works with Go, Node.js, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, Memcached, REST, gRPC, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, GCP, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo, and Grafana.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including experience as an Engineering Manager or lead with direct people responsibility.
• BE/BTech graduate.
• Has owned delivery for a backend team shipping production services.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining technical issues to customers and trade-offs to leadership.
• Experience handling customer or production escalations, including triage, communication, and close-out.
• Working fluency with distributed backend systems, including APIs, gRPC, Kafka or equivalent, data stores, and caches.
• Hands-on familiarity with Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript) and/or Go sufficient to review designs and debug with the team.
• Understands deploying and operating services on a public cloud; GCP and/or DigitalOcean experience is preferred.
• Can use production evidence such as logs, metrics, traces, and Grafana or equivalent.
• Uses AI assistants for coding, reviews, tests, and documentation without lowering quality standards.
• Comfortable working from the office.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with GCP and/or DigitalOcean.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a backend engineering team through one-on-ones, performance management, hiring, and career development.
• Own delivery, including scope, sequencing, risk management, and shipping against the roadmap.
• Unblock the team by managing priorities, dependencies, design decisions, and operational load.
• Communicate clearly with customers, support, product, and engineering about technical status and issues.
• Help customers resolve technical issues by reproducing, triaging, explaining impact, and driving a fix or workaround.
• Own customer escalations by joining calls, setting expectations, coordinating the engineering response, and closing the loop.
• Maintain standards for backend architecture, code reviews, testing, and production readiness.
• Make or facilitate decisions across services, data stores, and messaging without becoming a bottleneck.
• Partner with SDE-3s and tech leads on RFCs, incidents, and the technical roadmap.
• Ensure the team can deploy, roll back, and debug services on GCP and DigitalOcean.
• Drive incident response and post-incident follow-through when production or a customer is affected.
• Establish engineering practices such as design reviews, on-call, observability, and documentation.
• Use AI tools for coding, reviews, tests, and documentation while keeping accountability with the engineer who ships.

Benefits

• Performance-driven culture with accelerated growth opportunities for high achievers.
• Best-in-industry compensation aligned with skills and contributions.
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage and employee-focused benefits.
• Reimbursement policies supporting professional and personal development.
• Five-day working week designed to promote work-life balance and long-term career success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager