Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 2+ years managing software engineers directly, with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance management
• 5+ years of prior experience as a software engineer building and operating production applications, with hands-on technical work in the last 3–4 years
• A solid technical foundation, enough to lead architecture discussions and review code with credibility
• A bias for experimentation: you make sound calls quickly, learn from data, and change course when the evidence says so
• A people-first approach: you lead with empathy, listen first, and build the trust and psychological safety that help each person do their best work
• Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs clearly to product, business, and customer stakeholders
• Experience leading a team that shipped LLM-powered features to production, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management
• Experience building AI agents, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, or familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) What the job involves
• You'll lead the team behind one of Mural's most important bets
• In the near term, you'll take our AI native product from early access to a product that customers rely on every day, raising quality, reliability, and speed as more users come on board
• Expect a very hands-on role
• You'll review PRs, set the technical standards the team builds to, and stay close to the code and architecture decisions
• You'll also keep the team's pace high and sustainable while building a high-performing team in a remote-first way
• Lead, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, coaching, and performance management
• Own delivery end to end with a fast, experimental loop: ship early to real users, measure what works, and iterate quickly without losing reliability
• Partner with Product and Design as co-owners of the Compose roadmap, using customer feedback and usage data to decide what to build, cut, or double down on
• Raise engineering craft across testing, observability, and AI-assisted development, and model Mural's remote-first, work-in-public culture at a sustainable pace
• ---Our Stack---
• Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB Benefits
• 401(k)
• Company equity
• Health insurance
• Fertility benefits
• MURALvida stipend
• Fully remote team
• Flexible time off
• Parental leave
• End of Year Closure
• Design thinking trainings
• MURAL free forever plan