Engineering Manager – Realtime

About the Role

The Engineering Manager for Realtime at Supabase plays a crucial role in overseeing the development and management of low-latency messaging systems. This position is vital as it ensures that developers can send and receive real-time updates seamlessly, enhancing user experience and application performance. In the initial months, you will focus on building a strong team culture, ensuring effective communication, and driving project milestones. You will engage in design discussions and collaborate closely with your team to maintain high engineering standards while managing the technical roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster a healthy and high-trust team culture in a remote environment, ensuring that team members feel valued and supported.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with team members to discuss performance, career development, and provide necessary feedback for professional growth.
• Oversee the hiring process by developing a hiring plan, acting as the Hiring Manager, and conducting first-round interviews for potential new team members.
• Manage the team’s project roadmap and utilize project management tools to ensure clarity in milestones and responsibilities.
• Coordinate workflow intake and prioritize requests from various stakeholders, ensuring that team efforts align with company objectives.
• Train as an Incident Commander to lead post-incident reviews, ensuring that lessons learned are documented and communicated for future improvements.

Requirements & Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of engineering experience, demonstrating a solid understanding of complex system architecture and design.
• At least 3 years of experience managing remote engineering teams, with a focus on fostering collaboration and communication.
• Proven track record of managing services that require low-latency and high connection capabilities, such as WebSockets or messaging systems.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, including knowledge of clustering, rate limiting, and capacity planning.
• Experience leading teams through production incidents, ensuring effective resolution and follow-up processes are in place.

What You’ll Gain

• Opportunity to enhance your leadership skills while managing a talented team in a dynamic, remote-first environment.
• Experience in driving the development of innovative technology solutions that have a direct impact on user experience.
• Exposure to advanced concepts in distributed systems and real-time messaging, relevant in today’s tech landscape.
• Networking opportunities with other leaders and engineers in a growing company focused on backend solutions for developers.

How to Apply

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please submit your application through the following link: Apply here.