Engineering Manager, Copia Automation

• 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

Desirable

• We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to stand up and lead a brand-new Core Applications Platform team
• This team’s customers are our internal product teams, and its mandate is to design, build, and own the shared, full-stack application capabilities that every product at Copia depends on; the kind of capabilities that should be solved once, well, and reused across many user types
• Reporting into the VP of Engineering, you will lead a group of full-stack software engineers and partner closely with the Product, Design, and other Engineering leaders whose teams rely on what you build
• You’ll support, mentor, and grow your team while staying close enough to the technology to provide meaningful architectural input, code review, and the occasional pull request
• This role is a great fit for a hands-on line manager who is excited by the challenge of building a new team from scratch and shaping how an entire engineering organization builds product
• You must be comfortable collaborating through ambiguity, while supporting your team to drive predictable velocity as we continue to scale the organization
• 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