Kin Engineering Manager role leading a full-stack team building distributed, API-first systems on AWS. Responsible for driving scalable architecture, reliable delivery, and developing high-performing engineers.
Responsibilities
We’re looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to help us scale our product architecture and elevate our engineering execution. As Kin continues to grow, we’re evolving from monolithic systems toward distributed, modular services — and we need a hands-on leader who can guide that transformation while delivering customer-facing innovation.
This role exists at a pivotal moment: we’re balancing rapid product development with long-term system reliability, performance, and scalability. You’ll lead a full-stack team across front-end and back-end systems, partnering closely with Product to ship roadmap features while strengthening architecture and engineering standards.
Your responsibilities
Lead and develop a high-performing full-stack engineering team, fostering ownership, accountability, and continuous growth
Serve as a hands-on player-coach, contributing meaningful production code while setting technical direction
Drive delivery of roadmap initiatives from concept through production with predictable, high-quality execution
Champion API-first design and schema-first development practices (OpenAPI/Swagger, contract testing, interface-driven development)
Guide the decomposition of monolithic systems into modular, distributed services with clear ownership boundaries
Establish best practices for observability, resilience, and distributed communication (tracing, retries, idempotency, error handling)
Lead architectural discussions to ensure long-term maintainability, reliability, and performance
Partner cross-functionally with Product, PMO, and other engineering teams to align technical strategy with business priorities
Participate in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring to strengthen the engineering organization
Qualification
Interviews with recruiters
Preferred
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue)
Familiarity with BI or big-data technologies such as Looker or BigTable
Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks
Exposure to regulated industries such as insurance or financial services
We believe a great hiring experience should be clear, respectful, and human. Applications for this role are accepted on an on-going basis. While our recruiting team uses AI tools for efficiency, resumes are still screened by Kin’s in-house recruiters, and candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are made by recruiters and hiring teams. Rest assured, real people make real decisions.
The hiring process and timeline for each role will vary, depending on the position. However, here are some things you can expect from us:
Prompt updates and feedback following interviews
Interviews with recruiters, hiring managers, and members of teams
