Engineering Manager

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, owning their performance, growth, and day-to-day productivity across sprint cycles and delivery milestones
• Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives with rigor and consistency
• Own the release communication process, ensuring the broader organization is informed of what has been built, shipped, and changed with every release cycle
• Establish and mature incident response protocols, including clear internal communication to sales, customer success, and leadership when platform availability is impacted
• Partner with the CTO to ruthlessly prioritize engineering work based on business impact, technical debt, and resource constraints
• Collaborate with product leadership to balance feature delivery with technical excellence and long-term maintainability
• Own production deployment oversight, ensuring releases meet quality, documentation, and rollback standards before reaching production
• Build and enforce code review standards that prioritize quality, security, and architectural consistency across the team
• Remove blockers and facilitate team productivity through daily standups, 1:1s, and cross-team coordination
• Establish documentation standards for architecture decisions, design rationale, and release notes across the engineering org
• Track team velocity, sprint health, and delivery metrics, using data to drive continuous process improvement
• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent as the team scales
• Serve as the escalation point for engineering incidents, coordinating response and ensuring timely, accurate communication to all affected stakeholders
• Contribute hands-on technical work approximately 50% of the time, maintaining credibility with the team and staying close to the codebase

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role
• Proven track record of building and maturing engineering processes in fast-moving, high-growth environments where the operational playbook did not yet exist
• Experience leading teams through sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative delivery using Agile or similar methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to establish and enforce release management, code review, and documentation standards across an engineering team
• Experience building and owning incident response processes, including cross-functional communication to non-engineering stakeholders during outages or degraded service
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and multi-cloud or hybrid deployment architectures
• Ability to contribute hands-on technical work while maintaining primary focus on people and delivery leadership
• Experience partnering with product leadership to align engineering priorities with business outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to accelerate development workflows, with strong judgment about when and how to apply them effectively
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, release status, and incident updates clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Deep ownership mindset: you hold yourself and your team accountable to outcomes, not just activity

Preferred Qualification s

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management
• Experience managing engineering teams building AI/ML platforms, data infrastructure, or similarly novel technical architectures
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, RAG systems, LLM fine-tuning workflows, or real-time data pipelines
• Experience managing teams operating across multi-cloud environments including AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises deployments
• Background establishing engineering culture and process discipline in early stage or high-growth startups
• Experience owning or contributing to product roadmap decisions alongside a CPO or product leadership team
• Track record of recruiting and developing senior engineering talent
• A history of thoughtfully integrating AI tools into engineering workflows to ship faster without compromising quality

• Base salary range: $180,000 - $220,000 annually
• Competitive equity package in venture-backed startup
• Performance-based bonus structure
• Annual merit-based salary reviews
• Stock

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage (80% employer-paid)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Unlimited PTO policy with 15 days minimum
• 11 paid company holidays

• Annual training and certification budget
• Access to online learning platforms
• Conference attendance opportunities
• Regular internal technical workshops and knowledge sharing sessions

• Location: Onsite in Dallas, Texas
• High-performance workstations
• Modern office space in Dallas with standing desks and ergonomics equipment
• Monthly team events and learning sessions
• Collaborative in-office environment fostering innovation and teamwork

We like to be efficient but do our due diligence.

Here’s what you’ll expect from us:

• Interview with Recruiter (30-60 minutes)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• Technical Interviews and Presentation (Half-Full Day)
• Interview with CEO (30-60 minutes)

Hit that apply button and submit the following:

• Detailed Resume
• Git Hub profile or code samples
• Brief cover letter describing your development experience
• References from previous roles

4MINDS is an equal opportunity employer.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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