Engineering Manager

Apiphani is a technology-enabled managed services company dedicated to redefining what it means to support mission‑critical enterprise workloads. We’re a small but rapidly growing company, which means there’s lots of room for growth and learning opportunities abound!

Apiphani is dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment for all as a fundamental component of our business. Diversity and inclusion are the bedrock of creativity and innovation. Without diversity of experience and thought, we would fail to progress as a company and as a team.
Apiphani strives to foster an environment of belonging, where every employee feels respected, valued, and empowered. We embrace the unique experiences, perspective, and cultural background, which only you can bring to the table.

Location: Remote | Full-time |

Reports to:

VP of Product & Engineering

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team building Luumen (luumen.ai) — our agentic AI platform for enterprise IT automation.

You’ll own the team responsible for the SSH client
, the web application
, and the backend services behind them — a team of 6–8 engineers across those work streams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role at a Series A startup. We expect you to spend the majority of your time on management, architecture, and unblocking the team — but we also expect you to stay close enough to the code to make credible technical calls, review designs with depth, and occasionally ship something yourself when it matters. Roughly ~20% hands‑on is a reasonable baseline;

the exact mix will flex with what the team needs.

You’ll partner closely with our PM on roadmap, tech debt prioritization, and sequencing work across the team. You’ll report to the VP of Product & Engineering.

• Lead a team of 6–8 engineers across the SSH client, web application, and backend services — running 1:1s, performance management, mentorship, career growth, and day‑to‑day delivery.
• Own technical architecture across the stack you're responsible for — frontend systems, terminal/SSH client patterns, backend service design, API contracts, performance, and the long‑term shape of the codebase.
• Drive engineering process. Define how the team plans, ships, and learns. Introduce lightweight rituals where they help (sprint cadence, code review, on‑call, incident response) and resist process that slows the team down.
• Partner with Product on roadmap, tech debt prioritization, and translating customer needs into engineering work. Help sequence what the team builds and make the tradeoffs explicit.
• Stay technical. Review architecture proposals, unblock engineers, challenge technical tradeoffs, step in during incidents, and contribute code when it's the highest‑leverage thing you can do (~20% of your time, give or take).
• Hire and build the team. Source, interview, sell, and onboard engineers. Help define rubrics and shape the culture as we scale.
• Communicate across the org. Translate technical risk and tradeoffs to founders, product, design, and customer‑facing teams. Operate autonomously in a fast‑moving environment.

• 5–10+ years of engineering experience
  , with meaningful time as a senior engineer or tech lead before moving into management.
• 1–5+ years managing engineers directly — hiring, 1:1s, performance management, sprint/process ownership, career development.
• Strong full‑stack technical depth. You've built and shipped non‑trivial systems on both sides of the wire and can speak credibly about frontend architecture, backend service design, API contracts, and the tradeoffs between them. Familiarity with terminal/CLI clients (TUI frameworks, SSH, CLI ergonomics) is a plus.
• Track record building process from…