Engineering Manager

The posting, as Nametag wrote it

Engineering Manager

Remote, US

About Nametag
Nametag is building the future of secure digital identity. Our mission is to make it easy for people and organizations to prove who they are online, safely and seamlessly. We're pioneering next-generation identity verification and account protection so that users can control their own identity, and companies can build trust without friction. By enabling trust at scale, we help enterprises reduce fraud, streamline onboarding, and deliver secure user experiences that customers love.

The Role

We're looking for an engineering leader to own how Nametag's engineering team works — how it plans, ships, operates, and grows.

This is a player-coach role on a small, senior team. You'll manage a group of staff- and senior-level engineers working across a Go backend on AWS, a React/TypeScript frontend, native mobile clients, and the ML systems behind our fraud detection. You will not be writing most of the code, but you need to be able to read it, review it, and hold a credible opinion in a design discussion. Engineers here are experienced and autonomous; they want a manager who removes obstacles and raises the bar, not one who assigns tickets.

You'll own delivery end to end: what the team commits to, whether it lands, and what we learn when it doesn't. You'll partner closely with product and with the CEO on roadmap and tradeoffs, and you'll be accountable for the operational health of a platform that enterprises depend on for account security.

We're a security company, which changes the job. Our failure modes are adversarial, not accidental. Reliability, incident response, and secure-by-default engineering are not a separate workstream you delegate — they're part of how the team ships.

We're also an AI-native engineering org. Our engineers work alongside coding agents daily, and we invest in the tooling, context, and review practices that make that productive rather than reckless. You'll be expected to have a point of view on how a team should actually work in that environment.

The title flexes with experience. For a candidate who has run an engineering organization before — owning hiring, structure, and technical strategy across multiple teams — this is a Head of Engineering role.

What you’ll do

Lead the team

Manage, coach, and grow a team of senior and staff engineers, including regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance and promotion decisions.

Set expectations clearly and address problems early. Protect the team's focus and its standards with equal energy.

Grow people deliberately — career paths, stretch work, and the honest conversations that make either one meaningful.

Own delivery

Run planning and execution so the team ships predictably: clear scope, visible progress, and no surprises at the end of a quarter.

Make and communicate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scope, and be accountable for the call.

Unblock work. Escalate the things that need escalating and absorb the rest.

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else to hand the hard thing to.

• Strong written communication. We're remote-first, and decisions that aren't written down didn't happen.

Bonus Points

• Experience in security, identity, fraud, or infrastructure-adjacent B2B SaaS.
• Experience with Go, AWS, and a services architecture.
• Experience scaling an engineering org through a growth stage — adding teams, layers, or a second manager.
• Experience with SOC 2 or similar compliance regimes as an engineering leader rather than a bystander.
• A real point of view, informed by practice, on how AI coding tools change engineering process and quality.

What we value

• High ownership. You see what needs doing and do it.
• Technical judgment. You make systems simpler, safer, and easier to operate.
• Speed with care. We move quickly because attackers move quickly, but we do not cut corners on trust or security.
• Knowledge compounds. What one person learns should be available to everyone, and to the tools we work alongside.
• Kindness and integrity. Trust starts with how we work with each other.

Culture & Perks

At Nametag, we believe trust starts with how we treat each other. We're a remote-first team that values autonomy, inclusivity, and collaboration, with regular in-person time to stay connected and innovate together.

• Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the US. Our team spans Seattle, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Denver, New York City, and beyond.
• Off-sites: We bring the team together once per quarter for in-person collaboration, often off-site in new places.
• Flexible schedules: Work in your own time zone; we align key meetings across a shared window.

We Offer

• Competitive salary with a range of $250,000-$285,000
• Meaningful equity ownership
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Flexible paid time off
• Quarterly team off-sites and travel support
• New computer hardware and equipment
• An inclusive environment where your voice has impact and your work drives change