Engineering Manager (Luumen)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead a team of 6-8 engineers across the SSH client, web application and backend services: 1:1s, performance management, mentorship, career growth and day-to-day delivery
• ▹Own technical architecture across the stack: frontend systems, terminal/SSH client patterns, backend service design, API contracts, performance and the long-term shape of the codebase
• ▹Drive engineering process: define how the team plans, ships and learns; introduce lightweight rituals where they help (sprint cadence, code review, on-call, incident response) and resist process that slows the team down
• ▹Partner with Product on roadmap, tech debt prioritization and translating customer needs into engineering work; make tradeoffs explicit
• ▹Stay technical: review architecture proposals, unblock engineers, challenge technical tradeoffs, step in during incidents and contribute code when it is the highest-leverage thing (about 20% of your time)
• ▹Hire and build the team: source, interview, sell and onboard engineers; help define rubrics and shape the culture as the team scales
• ▹Communicate across the org: translate technical risk and tradeoffs to founders, product, design and customer-facing teams; operate autonomously in a fast-moving environment

Requirements

• ▹5-10+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time as a senior engineer or tech lead before moving into management
• ▹1-5+ years managing engineers directly: hiring, 1:1s, performance management, sprint/process ownership, career development
• ▹Strong full-stack technical depth: you have built and shipped non-trivial systems on both sides of the wire and can speak credibly about frontend architecture, backend service design, API contracts and the tradeoffs between them
• ▹Track record building process from scratch: you have taken a team from startup chaos to predictable delivery without importing big-company bureaucracy
• ▹Hiring and team-building experience: you have sourced, interviewed, closed and onboarded engineers, and have a point of view on what makes a strong engineering culture
• ▹Cross-functional fluency: comfortable working directly with founders, product, design and customers; able to communicate technical risk clearly and handle ambiguity without a spec
• ▹Pragmatic, ownership-oriented mindset: you make calls with incomplete information, take responsibility for outcomes and do not need layers of management to operate

Nice to have

• ▹Experience at an earlier-stage startup (Seed-Series B)
• ▹Background in developer tools, infrastructure tooling or other technical-user-facing products
• ▹Exposure to AI/LLM-powered product surfaces or AI-augmented workflows
• ▹Experience scaling an engineering team through a meaningful growth phase (e.g. 5 to 15 or 15 to 40 engineers)
• ▹Familiarity with the stack: TypeScript, Python, AWS
• ▹Familiarity with terminal/CLI clients (TUI frameworks, SSH, CLI ergonomics)
• ▹Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partner conversations, debugging in production with users

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote, full-time
• ▹Globally distributed, high-performing team
• ▹Real scope: own a team across the full product stack, set technical direction and build the engineering culture
• ▹Base salary $180,000-$220,000 USD
• ▹Medical, dental and vision: 100% paid for employees, 50% for dependents (US employees)
• ▹Life and disability insurance, 100% paid for employees (US)
• ▹401K with a 3% company contribution (US)
• ▹Education and tuition reimbursement
• ▹Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity benefits
• ▹Employee Assistance Program and legal assistance
• ▹Paid time off up to 6 weeks per year, sick leave up to 2 weeks, parental leave up to 12 weeks
• ▹International employees are hired through the Employer of Record Deel with all statutory benefits under local law; some US-specific programs may not be available

About the company

Apiphani is a technology-enabled managed services company redefining how mission-critical enterprise workloads are supported. A small, rapidly growing company that treats a diverse and inclusive workplace as a fundamental value. Luumen is its agentic AI platform for enterprise IT automation.