Engineering Manager

Role overview

What you will own

• Lead the desktop application, botless recording, mobile recording, and real-time audio and video infrastructure team.
• Coach, develop, and hire engineers while ensuring knowledge and ownership are shared broadly.
• Improve observability, tooling, incident response, and platform operating practices.
• Use user and support feedback to guide priorities and partner across Product, Design, SRE, and engineering.
• Write production code, pair on difficult bugs and prototypes, and remain close to architecture and system risks.
• Set standards for AI coding tools and develop workflows that improve delivery without compromising quality.
• Balance feature delivery with platform investments in speed, safety, and reliability.
• Help shape operating-system integrations, recording environments, native mobile capabilities, and on-device intelligence.

What we are looking for

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience and 2 years managing software engineers.
• Desire to remain technically involved and experience leading production-critical systems.
• Track record improving reliability, observability, and operability.
• Strong judgment across feature delivery, user impact, technical debt, and platform investment.
• Experience turning ambiguity into momentum across teams or technical domains.
• Experience creating and rolling out agentic tools, processes, and development practices.
• Experience with systems where latency, uptime, consistency, or real-time behavior affects users.
• Experience hiring and developing engineers with specialized technical expertise.
• Strong communication skills with technical, product, leadership, and user stakeholders.
• Experience with desktop applications, Electron, real-time media, WebRTC, cross-platform systems, or rapid platform change is beneficial.

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, with optional office space in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto.

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