Senior Engineering Manager

Flow Engineering

$160K — $190K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software development with experience in cloud services at scale.
  • 2+ years of engineering management experience, preferably in early-stage companies.
  • Proven track record of delivering software for enterprise customers.
  • Hands-on coding skills with comfort in reviewing code and making architecture decisions.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to provide constructive feedback.
  • Experience in fast-paced environments requiring ownership and quick iteration.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers, focusing on onboarding and career development.
  • Oversee product execution from concept to delivery and iteration.
  • Remain involved in technical tasks, including code reviews and architecture decisions.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices within the team.
  • Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand their needs.
  • Collaborate with recruiting to expand the engineering team.
  • Influence the direction of AI integration into the product's features.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape engineering practices and team culture from the ground up.
  • Direct involvement with product development and customer interaction.
  • Hands-on role with opportunities to stay technically engaged.
  • Work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment where experimentation is encouraged.
Full Job Description
About the role

Flow is seeking a senior engineering manager to lead a team building the core of our platform. This is our first dedicated engineering management hire, and you will own delivery for a team of engineers while staying hands on with coding.

You will report to our head of engineering and work closely with product, design, and our forward deployed engineers.

What you'll do
  • Manage and grow a team of engineers, owning onboarding, feedback, and career development.
  • Own product execution end to end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate.
  • Stay technical. Review code, make architecture calls, and pick up meaningful work when a project needs it.
  • Help establish engineering best practices
  • Work directly with customers. Our users are systems and requirements engineers at hardware companies with a high bar
  • Partner with recruiting to build the team
  • Help set direction on how AI shows up in the product, working with engineers building agentic workflows and LLM-powered features.

About you
  • 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.
  • 2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company or somewhere with little existing process scaffolding.
  • Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on, with a clear understanding of what that changes about how you build.
  • Still hands on with coding
  • Direct communicator who is able to give difficult feedback
  • Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

Nice to have
  • Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or another regulated hardware domain.
  • Experience with requirements, ALM, PLM, or systems engineering tooling.
  • Experience managing teams building LLM-powered or agentic features in production.

Our stack
  • TypeScript/Node.js and Python for backend and AI services.
  • Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows.
  • Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state.

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