Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• ▹Own delivery and quality of the web product end to end, accountable for performance and reliability
• ▹Amplify the team rather than just grow it, so a small group keeps pace with widening products and goals
• ▹Set technical direction with engineers: architecture, standards, when to rebuild vs. patch
• ▹Work with design, product, and engineering leadership to organize, spec, and prioritize projects
• ▹Stay in the code: review implementations, prototype, and unblock the team's hardest problems
• ▹Hire when leverage runs out, and hire well
• ▹Run useful one-on-ones and technical planning

Requirements

• ▹Experience managing engineering teams building consumer products at real scale, while still writing code
• ▹Deep familiarity with a modern web stack (React, TypeScript, Next.js or similar)
• ▹Ability to hold your own in a design review and know when an estimate is wrong
• ▹A hiring track record — built teams, not just inherited them
• ▹Know how to make a team fast without adding ceremony: small loops, clear owners
• ▹Push the boundaries of AI-assisted development in daily work
• ▹Communicate clearly and directly across web, backend, design, and product

Nice to have

• ▹Performance work on media-heavy consumer web apps: rendering, latency, image delivery at scale
• ▹Experience with products serving multiple surfaces (web, mobile, desktop, embedded clients) from shared foundations
• ▹Experience in AI or generative media before the current cycle
• ▹Led a team through a platform transition, a rewrite, or a product that outgrew its architecture

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Compensation: $250,000–$275,000 + benefits
• ▹Speed of a startup with the freedom and resources of a research lab
• ▹Tiny team, large ambitions, decisions in production within days

About the company

Midjourney is an independent, self-funded research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding human imaginative powers, with a small team relative to its millions-strong community.