Senior Engineering Manager, Remote Driving Software

About the role

At Vay, we value engineering leaders who stay close to the technology while scaling teams and systems. In this role, you will guide architectural decisions, remove obstacles for your teams, and build a high performing engineering culture grounded in focus, ownership, and excellence. Working closely with the founder and senior leadership, you will play a key role in shaping our long term technical direction, how we operate as an engineering organisation, and how we safely scale remote driving on public roads.

What you'll do

• Lead and scale the Platform and Media engineering teams, owning the delivery of core real time platform and media systems
• Define and drive modern software engineering practices, ensuring high quality, reliability, and predictable delivery
• Partner with technical leads to shape roadmaps, priorities, and long term technical direction
• Review designs and guide architectural decisions for performance and safety critical systems
• Build, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career growth
• Own hiring for your teams in close collaboration with Talent
• Stay hands on where it adds the most value, contributing up to 25% of the time
• Collaborate closely with product, program, and cross functional teams to drive alignment and execution

What you'll need

• You are a senior engineering leader who enjoys owning complex, real time systems end to end, from technical direction and architecture through to production operation
• You have led multiple high performing engineering teams of 5 to 10 engineers, with a proven track record of scaling and developing teams
• You are passionate about improving engineering productivity and enabling other teams across the organisation
• You bring strong proficiency in C++ and Linux, with experience working close to the system in performance critical environments
• You have worked on embedded or real time systems where reliability, latency