Engineering Manager

As an engineering manager at Lumos, you have massive responsibility to lead and grow our newest product engineering team. You’ll work closely with both technical cofounders and scale not just the team but the entire engineering organization and company!

• Join us as our second engineering manager, and become a cornerstone of engineering leadership at Lumos. 🎊
• Manage and scale a brand new product engineering team — onboard, coach, and mentor engineers, and lead hiring as we prepare to hyperscale. 🚀
• Grow our entire organization, implementing scalable and reliable engineering best practices and creating organizational clarity for all of eng-product-design. Improve upon the principles of engineering and management at Lumos. 🌱
• Collaborate closely with our product and design team to define and execute on our product roadmap. Oversee a large swath of our product surface area, expanding our existing product while simultaneously iterating quickly on brand new product verticals. ♻️
• Build a mind-blowing product experience, by both skillfully managing the team and staying technical to contribute where necessary and level-up engineers on the team. 🦄

• Skilled Manager. You have experience as an engineering manager and leader, and have built and managed high-performing teams. You’re excited by organizational challenges and putting processes in place that accelerate team velocity. It is a big plus to have experience in engineering leadership and management in fast-paced, high growth startup environments.
• Care Genuinely. You put people first and understand that building great teams and products requires motivating and aligning teams of humans. You’re empathetic and motivated to make people better engineers and their best selves around you. You bring positive energy to your teams and strive to create safe + inclusive environments.
• Product Focus. Have a passion to build amazing products and skill in understanding how to effectively solve product challenges with a sharp engineering team in a scrappy, early-stage entrepreneurial environment.
• Full-stack software engineering. You are excited to remain technically close to the system, and can contribute to discussions of architecture and long-term technical strategy as needed. It’s a plus if you’re familiar with our stack (React, Typescript, GraphQL, Python, and Flask + SQLAlchemy).
• Recruiting Talent. You love to find and recruit top talent. It makes your day when you close a fantastic engineer to join your team. You have defined new engineering positions for your teams and acted as hiring manager for them. At Lumos, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with our head of engineering and talent team to rapidly scale the engineering organization.
• Great Communicator. For such a high-leverage leadership position early in a startup, written and verbal communication is critical. You can communicate clearly and convincingly to the technical team.

We purposefully did not create a standard list of minimum qualifications because we care much more about your motivation, excitement, and potential to grow into the role than about your CV.

Instead of focusing on what people need to have, we focus on what people need to do. Additionally, we try to find out whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on our values that define how we achieve outcomes and what characteristics we value.

*We encourage you to apply even if you think you might not be perfect fit! 🤝