Engineering Manager

About Responsive

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is the global leader in strategic response management software, transforming how organizations share and exchange critical information. The AI-powered Responsive Platform is purpose-built to manage responses at scale, empowering companies across the world to accelerate growth, mitigate risk and improve employee experiences. Nearly 2,000 customers have standardized on Responsive to respond to RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, ESGs, security questionnaires, ad hoc information requests and more. Learn more at responsive.io.

About the Role

Responsive is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of high-performing engineers while driving technical excellence in full-stack development (Java + React).

This is a hybrid role – part leadership, part deep technical contribution, with approximately 50% of your time spent coding. You'll help shape technical direction, support your team's growth, and stay close to the code. Expect to spend at least half your time involved in hands-on technical work - including architecture design, code reviews, prototyping, and implementation.

In this role, you will be responsible for technical strategy, team mentorship, and scalable system design. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to build high-performance, reliable, and scalable SaaS solutions while ensuring best practices in observability, performance monitoring, and system health.

What You'll Be Doing

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the technical vision for scalable, maintainable solutions in Java and React while contributing directly to architecture and design decisions.
• Hands-on Engineering Contribution: Spend 50% of your time coding and actively contributing to design, reviews, prototyping, and implementation.
• People Management & Mentorship: Lead a team of engineers, provide mentorship, conduct performance reviews, and foster a culture of continuous learning.
• Full-Stack Development Oversight: Ensure engineering excellence across Java backend services, React frontend applications, and MongoDB data architecture.
• AI & Intelligent Systems Development:Contribute to and guide the development of AI Agents and AI-driven capabilities
• Observability & Monitoring: Establish and enhance monitoring, logging, and tracing frameworks to ensure system reliability and proactive issue detection.
• Performance Optimization: Drive performance tuning, system scaling, and resource optimization for cloud-based architectures.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and other engineering teams to align development with business objectives.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote best practices in coding, security, DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.

What We're Looking For

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience

• 14+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years in a leadership/managerial role.
• Demonstrated experience in a hands-on technical leadership role with significant coding contributions.
• Experience building AI Agents or AI-driven systems.

Skills, Qualifications & Ability

• Strong expertise in Java and React for full-stack application development.
• Experience with MongoDB and knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proven leadership and mentorship experience, with a track record of coaching and growing engineers at different levels.
• Ability to inspire, engage, and develop high-performing engineering teams while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Experience in setting technical direction, conducting architecture reviews, and guiding teams on best practices.
• Strong experience with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic, OpenSearch, and Splunk.
• Expertise in cloud-native development, with hands-on experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency in search and retrieval technologies (ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, etc.), with knowledge of AI-driven search and NLP as a plus.
• Strong understanding of system scalability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in CI/CD, TDD, and DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong problem-solving skills, decision-making ability, and stakeholder management experience.
• Experience working in agile environments, with familiarity in Scrum and JIRA.
• Experience in designing and implementing AI-powered applications, including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, and workflow automation solutions

Why Join Us

• Impact-Driven Work: Build innovative solutions that redefine strategic response management.
• Collaborative Environment: Work with a passionate team of technologists, designers, and product leaders.
• Career Growth: Be part of a company that values learning and professional development.
• Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive compensation and benefits to support our employees.
• Trusted by Industry Leaders: Be part of a product that is trusted by world-leading organizations.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Work on AI-driven solutions, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale data processing.
• Diverse and Inclusive Workplace: Collaborate with a global team that values different perspectives and ideas.