Engineering Manager - Affnook (Remote)

Affnook empowers affiliate marketing success of iGaming brands and operators through its cutting-edge affiliate marketing software. Our subscription-based platform combines the capabilities of an affiliate management solution, attribution tracking tool, campaign management platform and an anti-fraud tool. Aside from this, Affnook affiliate marketing software supports two-way API integration with all the leading third-party tools that an iGaming marketer requires to build, track and scale their marketing campaigns.

Affnook has helped global giants achieve record-breaking growth, but also empowered fledgling startups to find their niche. From the bustling casinos of Las Vegas to the emerging markets of Africa, we’re proud to empower over 100 iGaming clients to thrive in a diverse and dynamic landscape.

• Lead, coach, and grow a backend engineering team: 1:1s, performance, hiring, and career growth.
• Own delivery: scope, sequencing, risk, and shipping against the roadmap.
• Unblock the team — priorities, dependencies, design decisions, and operational load.

• Communicate clearly with customers, support, product, and engineering — no jargon hiding the actual status.
• Unblock customers from a technical perspective: reproduce, triage, explain impact, and drive a fix or workaround.
• Own customer escalations: join the call, set expectations, coordinate the engineering response, and close the loop.

• Hold the bar on architecture, reviews, testing, and production readiness for backend systems.
• Make or facilitate calls across services, data stores, and messaging — without becoming the bottleneck.
• Partner with SDE-3s and tech leads on RFCs, incidents, and the technical roadmap.

• Ensure the team can deploy, roll back, and debug services on GCP and DigitalOcean.
• Drive incident response and post-incident follow-through when production or a customer is hurting.

• Install simple habits: design reviews, on-call, observability, documentation.
• Use AI tools for coding, review, tests, and docs; keep accountability with the engineer who ships.

• Languages / runtime: Go, Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript).
• Data: MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, Memcached.
• APIs & messaging: REST, gRPC, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub.
• Cloud & delivery: GCP, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins / GitHub Actions, Argo.
• Observability: Grafana.

• 8+ years in software engineering, including time as an Engineering Manager or lead with direct people responsibility.
• BE/Btech graduate.
• Comfortable in working from office.
• Has owned delivery for a backend team shipping production services.
• Strong communicator — can explain a technical issue to a customer and a trade-off to leadership.
• Has handled customer or production escalations: triage, communication, and close-out.
• Working fluency with distributed backend systems: APIs, gRPC, Kafka or equivalent, data stores, caches.
• Hands-on enough in Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript) and/or Go to review designs and debug with the
• team.
• Understands deploying and operating services on a public cloud (GCP and/or DigitalOcean preferred).
• Can work from production evidence: logs, metrics, traces, Grafana or equivalent.
• Uses AI assistants for coding, reviews, tests, and documentation — without lowering the quality bar.