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.