Engineering Manager, Fellow

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers
• A genuine desire to remain technically involved and continue writing code
• Experience leading teams responsible for production-critical systems
• A track record of making systems more reliable, observable, and easier to operate
• Strong judgment when balancing feature delivery, user impact, technical debt, and platform investment
• Comfort turning ambiguity into momentum across multiple teams or technical domains
• A track record of pushing beyond off-the-shelf AI coding workflows by designing, testing, and rolling out new agentic tools, processes, and development practices that materially improve how teams build software
• Experience with systems where latency, uptime, consistency, or real-time behaviour materially affect the user experience
• Experience hiring and developing strong engineers, including people with specialised technical expertise
• Strong communication skills with engineers, product partners, peer leaders, users, and executives
• Enthusiasm for building both great technology and a great team around it

Desirable

• We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team responsible for this platform
• You will help a strong existing team reach its next level, raise the bar for operational excellence, and shape the next generation of Fellow’s recording capabilities
• This is a true player-coach role
• You will manage and develop engineers, set technical direction, and stay close enough to the work to write code, jump into a tricky production issue, and explore promising ideas alongside the team
• Lead and grow the existing team responsible for Fellow’s desktop application, botless recording experience, mobile recording, and real-time audio and video infrastructure
• Coach and develop engineers working across these platforms, grow the team with the expertise it needs next, and ensure knowledge and ownership are shared broadly
• Make reliability a competitive advantage by improving observability, tooling, incident response, and the systems and practices required to operate the platform at scale
• Stay close to people using Fellow and to our support teams, using real-world feedback to guide the team’s priorities
• Stay technically hands-on by writing production code where it creates leverage, pairing on difficult bugs and prototypes, and remaining close to the architecture and risks within the systems your team owns
• Set the standard for how the team uses AI coding tools, modelling effective workflows and continually exploring ways to build faster without compromising production quality
• Partner with Product, Design, SRE, and other engineering leaders to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear priorities and measurable outcomes
• Balance ambitious user-facing work with the platform investments that make future development faster, safer, and more reliable
• Help shape what comes next, including deeper operating-system integrations, new recording environments, native mobile capabilities, and on-device intelligence
• Success means helping an established team grow its capabilities and impact, shipping ambitious new experiences, and creating a recording platform people can trust
• Fellow is a remote-first company with core collaboration hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time