Engineering Manager Role
We're opportunistically hiring an engineering manager focused on product engineering. For this role, you must start off as an individual contributor and write code. As Replo grows, so will your scope. You'll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and define best practices across the team. This will evolve into managing teams and working directly with the co-founders, while shipping great products and staying close to the code.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of exceptional engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to help them succeed and thrive.
- Deeply understand customer needs and pain points to prioritize work and deliver solutions that drive real impact.
- Own project execution end-to-end planning, architecture, and delivery while maintaining high quality and predictable timelines.
- Collaborate with high-visibility teams and stakeholders to drive critical product and platform initiatives forward.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, from system architecture and design to incident response and roadmap definition.
- Work every day with founders to shape and execute on the long-term vision for Replo's AI platform.
- Partner with our Chief of Staff to attract top-tier engineering talent and define hiring strategies as the team scales.
Things You'll Be Working On
Architecting and implementing full-stack product features. Real examples include :
Enable merchants to sell anything, anywhere, including subscriptions, dropshipping, and digital products in one platform.Build agentic workflows that design and build online shops for anyone, from SaaS startups to M&Ms.Build out product & payments processing infrastructure for millions of users.Ingest billions of events / month using Kafka + ClickHouse, powering real-time dashboards and automating marketing strategies.Own our user onboarding and billing flow from end-to-end.Minimum Requirements
Has a CS degree (or equivalent)Can be in office 3-4 days / week in San Francisco5+ years of professional experience in software developmentAt least 2+ years of tech lead / engineering managementExperience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scaleUses Cursor / Windsurf / GPT to accelerate their workHas built products 0 ->1 with real users and revenue
Is OK operating independently without product / designIs ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at ReploHas a product and customer-focused mindsetValues writing clean, maintainable software, including documentationIs comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain pointsBonus Points If You
Experiencing managing teams in a people / technical capacityHave started a company beforeEnjoy attending hackathonsWorked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previouslyHave not wasted hours interview-prepping on LeetcodeHave an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).