Engineering Manager

Cloudless Labs is a fast-growing startup building Fluence, a decentralized protocol enabling developers to rent compute resources seamlessly. Our small, talented team is tackling challenging problems in cloud-native infrastructure, decentralized computing, and product delivery for the web3 space.

Your Role

As the Engineering Manager, you will:

Team Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead a group of ~15 engineers across R&D, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
• Facilitate team routines, including dailies, retrospectives, planning, and performance reviews.
• Mentor team members, fostering a collaborative and productive engineering culture.
• Adapt team structure and processes to align with evolving business priorities and project needs.

Strategic Oversight and Alignment

• Establish a high-level roadmap with stakeholders, prioritizing features and milestones that maximize business value and go-to-market impact.
• Organize and maintain architecture decisions, technical documentation, and knowledge in a centralized, up-to-date, and accessible form.
• Support cross-team collaboration, ensuring smooth integration of efforts and delivering high-quality, cohesive products.

Process and Quality Improvements

• Define and implement lightweight yet effective project planning, task decomposition, and estimation processes.
• Supervise QA practices, ensuring rigorous testing and alignment with production standards.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on team satisfaction, productivity, and engineering excellence.

What We’re Looking For

Leadership Experience

• Proven success in managing engineering teams in fast-paced environments, ideally in cloud-native or infrastructure-heavy domains.
• Strong track record of aligning engineering practices with strategic goals and ensuring timely delivery of complex projects.

Technical Understanding

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, container orchestration) and decentralized or blockchain concepts (e.g., Solidity, smart contracts).
• Ability to oversee technically challenging projects without needing hands-on coding.

Problem-Solving Skills

• Expertise in managing constrained resources, prioritizing business needs, and organizing teams for maximum impact.
• Adept at balancing short-term deliverables with long-term engineering and business goals.

Communication and Collaboration

• Exceptional ability to align multiple stakeholders, clarify priorities, and maintain coherence across teams.
• Fluent English required; Russian is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• A well-defined and aligned roadmap that sets clear priorities and expectations for all stakeholders.
• A fully established knowledge management system that reduces friction and preserves organizational expertise.
• Efficient and predictable delivery processes that maintain product quality and align with business milestones.

Why Join Us?

• High-Impact Leadership: Drive the engineering organization and work closely with the CTO on strategic and operational decisions.
• Exciting Challenges: Tackle cloud-native and web3 innovations, delivering cutting-edge solutions in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Inclusive Culture: Join a team that values collaboration, mutual respect, and high engineering standards.
• Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere and help shape the future of decentralized compute.

Location: Remote

Commitment: Full-time