Gem

Engineering Manager

Gem$170K — $210K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership
  • Experience managing 10+ agents for production
  • Strong engineering skills with a coding background
  • Proven ability to coach and mentor engineers
  • Experience leading distributed teams across time zones

Responsibilities

  • Run a fleet of agents to build, research, and ship in production
  • Drive architecture decisions for agent output
  • Collaborate with the CTO to innovate the software stack
  • Coach and develop engineers within the team
  • Foster a high-performance culture across US and remote teams
  • Contribute to special projects involving security, compliance, and cost management alongside the CTO

Benefits

  • Opportunities for hands-on involvement with technology
  • Engagement in significant architectural decisions
  • Collaboration with senior leadership
  • Support for professional growth and coaching
  • Chance to impact team culture in a growing startup environment
Full Job Description
About the Role

Roughly 70% of the job is managing agents, 30% managing people. On the agent side, you run a fleet to ship features, design the workflows they run in, make the architecture calls, and review their output. On the people side, you coach and manage a distributed team, and act as a sharp technical partner to the CTO.

It's built for an EM or tech lead manager who wants to get more hands-on, not less. If management pulled you away from building, agents put you back in it while the team keeps scaling.

Responsibilities

  • Run a fleet of agents to build, research, and ship in production
  • Drive architecture, including what the agents produce
  • Partner with the CTO to reimagine the software stack for the agentic world
  • Coach and grow the engineers on the team
  • Drive a high performance culture across the US and Remote team.
  • Partner with CTO on company level special projects across security, compliance, and cost management.


You're a Great Fit If

  • You already run 10+ agents to build and research, daily
  • You've managed engineers as an EM or tech lead manager, and want to get more hands-on
  • You're a sharp engineer, not a manager who stopped coding
  • You dive into the details and drive the business outcomes
  • You coach engineers well and people want to work for you
  • You've managed a distributed team across time zones


Nice to Have

  • Vertical SaaS, logistics, or billing experience
  • Real-time or high-reliability systems: dispatch, telephony, payments
  • Built agent workflows into a production product
  • TypeScript/Node and Postgres (our stack)
  • Early-stage startup experience


Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000 per year.

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