Software Engineering Manager
Posted on:
August 15, 2025
Job description
About the role and you
Our engineering team is growing rapidly and we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to team up with our Head of Engineering to lead the talented folks responsible for our products and systems. You’ll work closely with the leadership team in building ambitious systems without compromising on clarity, culture, or care. We ship fast, we learn fast, and we own the outcomes.
This is a hands-on, high-context role that blends technical leadership with inclusive, people-first management and talent development. You’ll guide engineers across varying levels of experience, from high-potential juniors to deeply experienced seniors, all while maintaining thoughtful velocity and keeping the engineering bar high.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Shape technical direction alongside the team - work with engineers to translate customer needs into technical solutions, balancing immediate business needs with long-term system health
- Partner across the company to stay connected to customer impact - collaborate with sales, customer success, and product to understand what's working (and what isn't), then help your team prioritize accordingly
- Grow engineers through hands-on collaboration - mentor through pairing, code reviews, and working side-by-side on challenging problems, helping people level up while shipping features customers love
- Build our talent pipeline thoughtfully - own hiring and onboarding new engineers, creating career paths that reward both technical growth and understanding customer needs
- Contribute directly to critical initiatives when needed - step into customer escalations, technical architecture decisions, or cross-functional projects to support business objectives beyond traditional management duties
- Create an engineering culture grounded in customer outcomes - ensure the team understands how their technical decisions impact business results and customer satisfaction
- Make pragmatic technical tradeoffs with the team - collaborate on balancing feature velocity, technical debt, and system reliability based on what the business actually needs
Job requirements
The right candidate
We’re in search of an engineering manager who has experience working in a fast paced environment, even if in an unofficial capacity. You’d have led high-trust and high-outout teams, balancing business needs with a people first mindset.
This role is ideal for someone who is (1) deeply interested in AI, (2) is excited to mentor and develop engineers of varying skill levels (3) is energized by operating at the nexus of the technical implementation of AI and ensuring customer success.
You might be a fit if you:
- Have 2- 4 years of experience as an engineering people manager and 7+ years of experience working in a top tier engineering organisation, and are passionate about growing people in a continually changing environment
- Are comfortable across the stack and are excited to lead ambitious, ambiguous projects that involve strong technical decision-making, effective implementation, and good product and design instincts
- Know how to mentor engineers at different points in their career, from early-career hires to seasoned ICs
- Have demonstrated experience hiring talented engineers in a competitive market, in addition to experience building onboarding paths, promotion rubrics, and team rituals that are inclusive and make people better
- Care about both systems design and human design; how your team operates is as important as the quality of what it ships
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguous, fast-moving, global environments
- Know how to balance day-to-day urgency with strategic, long-term thinking
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