Aurelian Engineering Manager leading a small pod of 3-4 engineers to own technical direction and code review while staying hands-on with coding and debugging. Responsible for mentoring engineers, hiring, and growing the team.
Responsibilities
Lead a small pod. 3-4 engineers in your surface area. Own technical direction and code review. As the team grows, you'll pick up 1:1s, growth plans, and performance work.
Stay hands-on. Ship code, review code, debug production issues. You should never get more than a few days away from the codebase.
Develop the engineers around you. Pair, mentor, coach. Help the engineers on your pod grow toward bigger scope and impact.
Be involved in hiring for your team. Help us bring in the next engineers on your pod.
Work directly with customers. Our users are 9-1-1 dispatchers and PSAP administrators. You'll visit dispatch centers, watch how they use the product, and use that context to drive what your team builds next.
Grow into a full EM seat. As we scale, you'll move into a fuller Engineering Manager scope - more reports, less code, more strategy.
Who We're Looking For
Leadership spike. 5+ years of software engineering. You've already led on your team - formally or informally. You've mentored other engineers, owned a project that needed coordination across people, or driven a change that didn't have a clear owner.
Wants to grow into management. You want the management path - growing other engineers, running a team, eventually owning a full EM seat.
Strong, capable engineer. You can land in our codebase fast and ship. You read code well, reason about architecture, and care about the craft.
High ownership and pragmatic urgency. You see a problem, figure out the right thing to build, and drive it to completion. You take responsibility for outcomes, not just your code.
Clear communicator. You can explain a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder. You write design docs other people actually read.
