Engineering Manager: Core Applications Platform

What you'll do: • Build and lead the team . You will stand up a brand-new squad of roughly four senior full-stack engineers, managing the full lifecycle of hiring, onboarding, and continuous growth through weekly 1:1s and performance feedback. You’ll align individual aspirations with business needs while fostering a culture of high standards and psychological safety.

• Set the charter and direction . Partnering with Engineering leadership, Product, and Design, you will define the team’s ownership boundaries and engagement models, translating high-level goals into a clear roadmap and well-scoped delivery milestones.

• Treat internal product teams as your customers . You will seek to understand their pain points, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship reusable, well-documented capabilities while measuring their adoption and impact across the organization.

• Drive the technical direction . You will oversee the architecture of shared full-stack platforms, including frontend frameworks, backend services, APIs, and multi-tenant primitives and ensure they scale. You’ll stay close enough to the technology to provide architectural input, code reviews, and hands-on contributions where they add the most leverage.

• Own operational quality and how we work . You’ll be responsible for on-call practices, incident response runbooks, and the engineering standards (from CI/CD to ADRs and testing) that empower every product team at Copia to move faster with higher confidence.

What you'll need: • 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years of formal or informal people-leadership experience (tech lead, team lead, or direct management).

• A strong technical foundation across the stack - frontend, backend, APIs, and data - and the judgment to design shared application capabilities that other engineers will want to build on.

• Experience delivering a product or capability with engineers as the end users (an internal platform, SDK, design system, framework, shared services layer, or developer-tools product). You know how to treat other engineers as real customers.

• Demonstrated ability to coach engineers — helping them grow technically, take on bigger scope, and develop in their careers.

• Strong written and verbal communication. You can adjust your message for engineers, executives, and partner teams without losing the substance.

• Sound judgment around prioritization, scope, and trade-offs, which includes knowing when to ship a focused MVP versus investing in the right foundation and when to say "no" or "not yet" to internal customers.

• Empathy, humility, and high standards. You are kind to people and tough on problems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to haves: • Experience starting a new team from zero — defining charter, hiring the first engineers, and establishing how it works with the rest of the org.

• Experience building shared application platforms, frameworks, design systems, or internal SDKs that were adopted by multiple internal product teams.

• Experience with some of our stack or adjacent technologies on both sides of the wire: TypeScript / Node.js, React, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Datadog.

• Familiarity with multi-tenant architecture, identity / authn / authz patterns, feature flags, and other primitives that show up repeatedly across products.

• Experience standing up or improving engineering practices: incident response, on-call, ADRs, code review standards, or career ladders.

• Background in B2B SaaS, developer tools, industrial automation, OT/IT, manufacturing software, or IoT.