Software Engineering Manager

Ternary

2d•Remote

About The Position

Ternary is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead their full stack engineering team. This is a player-coach role where the individual will own a critical segment of the product and platform while directly contributing to architecture, code review, and technical execution. The role reports to the VP of Product Delivery and collaborates closely with Product, Design, and other engineering leads to deliver high-quality software efficiently. This position is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and team leadership and wants to influence the scaling of a high-growth platform.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time building full stack web applications and data-intensive platforms.
2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead manager role, with a track record of shipping complex projects through a team.
Strong full stack technical depth: you are comfortable contributing to React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js or Go backend services, and BigQuery or large-scale data warehousing.
Demonstrated product sense — you make engineering decisions in the context of customer value and business outcomes, not just technical elegance.
Proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments: you identify the problem, align stakeholders, and move to execution without waiting for perfect information.
Strong communicator across levels — engineering team, cross-functional peers, and senior leadership.
Experience at both high-growth startups and mature engineering organizations is a strong signal.

Nice To Haves

Actively uses AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, LLM-assisted workflows) to accelerate engineering delivery — and expects and enables your team to do the same. Strong preference.
Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features: LLM integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agent workflows. Strong plus.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a full stack engineering team: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
Remain hands-on — actively contributing to architecture, design reviews, and code; you set the technical bar by example.
Own end-to-end delivery of major product and platform initiatives: planning, design, implementation, deployment, and production performance.
Drive architectural decisions that determine how the platform scales to serve enterprise finance and engineering buyers.
Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer needs and business requirements into executable engineering plans.
Define and enforce engineering best practices: code quality, testing standards, CI/CD, documentation, and incident response.
Make informed tradeoffs between tactical execution and long-term technical strategy, surfacing risks and options clearly to stakeholders.
Uplift the team through structured feedback, regular 1:1s, and a culture of high ownership and psychological safety.