Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead and expand the current team responsible for Fellow’s desktop application, botless recording experience, mobile recording, and real-time audio and video infrastructure.

• Mentor and develop engineers working across these platforms, enhance the team with the necessary expertise for future growth, and ensure that knowledge and ownership are widely distributed.

• Transform reliability into a competitive advantage by enhancing observability, tooling, incident response, and the systems and practices required to manage the platform at scale.

• Maintain close connections with Fellow users and our support teams, utilizing real-world feedback to inform the team’s priorities.

• Stay technically engaged by writing production code where it provides leverage, collaborating on challenging bugs and prototypes, and remaining close to the architecture and risks associated with the systems your team oversees.

• Establish expectations for the team's use of AI coding tools, modeling effective workflows and continuously seeking ways to accelerate development without sacrificing production quality.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, SRE, and other engineering leaders to transform ambiguous opportunities into defined priorities and measurable results.

• Balance ambitious user-facing initiatives with platform investments that enhance future development speed, safety, and reliability.

• Contribute to shaping future developments, including deeper operating-system integrations, new recording environments, native mobile functionalities, and on-device intelligence.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.

• A genuine enthusiasm for remaining technically engaged and continuing to write code.

• Proven experience leading teams responsible for production-critical systems.

• A history of enhancing system reliability, observability, and operational ease.

• Strong decision-making skills in balancing feature delivery, user impact, technical debt, and platform investment.

• Ability to convert ambiguity into progress across multiple teams or technical domains.

• A demonstrated record of advancing beyond standard AI coding workflows by designing, testing, and implementing new agentic tools, processes, and development practices that significantly improve software development.

• Experience with systems where latency, uptime, consistency, or real-time behavior significantly impact user experience.

• Experience in hiring and nurturing talented engineers, including those with specialized technical skills.

• Excellent communication skills with engineers, product partners, peer leaders, users, and executives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development opportunities