Engineering Manager

About Fellow

Role Overview

Team and Platform Leadership

• Lead the team responsible for the desktop application, botless recording, mobile recording, and real-time audio and video infrastructure.
• Coach and develop engineers, grow the team with needed expertise, and broaden knowledge and ownership.
• Use user and support-team feedback to guide priorities.
• Partner with Product, Design, SRE, and engineering leaders to define priorities and measurable outcomes.

Technical and Operational Ownership

• Improve observability, tooling, incident response, and operating practices for a reliable platform at scale.
• Write production code, pair on difficult bugs and prototypes, and remain close to architecture and system risks.
• Set standards for AI coding tools and explore development practices that increase speed without compromising quality.
• Balance user-facing delivery with platform investments that make future development faster, safer, and more reliable.

Future Product Direction

• Help shape deeper operating-system integrations, new recording environments, native mobile capabilities, and on-device intelligence.
• Success means helping an established team grow its capabilities and impact while shipping trusted recording experiences.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers.
• A genuine desire to remain technically involved and continue writing code.
• Experience leading teams responsible for production-critical systems.
• A track record of making systems more reliable, observable, and easier to operate.
• Strong judgment balancing feature delivery, user impact, technical debt, and platform investment.
• Comfort turning ambiguity into momentum across multiple teams or technical domains.
• Experience designing, testing, and rolling out agentic tools, processes, and development practices that improve software delivery.
• Experience with systems where latency, uptime, consistency, or real-time behavior affects user experience.
• Experience hiring and developing strong engineers.
• Strong communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience building desktop applications, particularly with Electron.
• Experience with real-time media, audio and video pipelines, WebRTC, or similar systems.
• Experience supporting software across operating systems, devices, and third-party platform integrations.
• Experience leading teams through rapid growth or significant platform change.

How We Work

• Fellow is a remote-first company with core collaboration hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
• The role is open to candidates located in Canada.
• Optional office space is available in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto.