Engineering Manager: Core Applications Platform

What you'll do:

• Build and lead the team. You will stand up a brand-new squad of roughly four senior full-stack engineers managing the full lifecycle of hiring onboarding and continuous growth through weekly 1:1s and performance feedback. You’ll align individual aspirations with business needs while fostering a culture of high standards and psychological safety.

• Set the charter and direction. Partnering with Engineering leadership Product and Design you will define the team’s ownership boundaries and engagement models translating high-level goals into a clear roadmap and well-scoped delivery milestones.

• Treat internal product teams as your customers. You will seek to understand their pain points prioritize ruthlessly and ship reusable well-documented capabilities while measuring their adoption and impact across the organization.

• Drive the technical direction. You will oversee the architecture of shared full-stack platforms including frontend frameworks backend services APIs and multi-tenant primitives and ensure they scale. You’ll stay close enough to the technology to provide architectural input code reviews and hands-on contributions where they add the most leverage.

• Own operational quality and how we work. You’ll be responsible for on-call practices incident response runbooks and the engineering standards (from CI/CD to ADRs and testing) that empower every product team at Copia to move faster with higher confidence.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience with at least 1–2 years of formal or informal people-leadership experience (tech lead team lead or direct management).

• A strong technical foundation across the stack - frontend backend APIs and data - and the judgment to design shared application capabilities that other engineers will want to build on.

• Experience delivering a product or capability with engineers as the end users (an internal platform SDK design system framework shared services layer or developer-tools product). You know how to treat other engineers as real customers.

• Demonstrated ability to coach engineers — helping them grow technically take on bigger scope and develop in their careers.

• Strong written and verbal communication. You can adjust your message for engineers executives and partner teams without losing the substance.

• Sound judgment around prioritization scope and trade-offs which includes knowing when to ship a focused MVP versus investing in the right foundation and when to say "no" or "not yet" to internal customers.

• Empathy humility and high standards. You are kind to people and tough on problems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to haves:

• Experience starting a new team from zero — defining charter hiring the first engineers and establishing how it works with the rest of the org.

• Experience building shared application platforms frameworks design systems or internal SDKs that were adopted by multiple internal product teams.

• Experience with some of our stack or adjacent technologies on both sides of the wire: TypeScript / Node.js React Go Python PostgreSQL AWS Datadog.

• Familiarity with multi-tenant architecture identity / authn / authz patterns feature flags and other primitives that show up repeatedly across products.

• Experience standing up or improving engineering practices: incident response on-call ADRs code review standards or career ladders.

• Background in B2B SaaS developer tools industrial automation OT/IT manufacturing software or IoT.

What We Do

Copia is redefining how the world’s factories energy systems and infrastructure are built and maintained. Our Industrial Code Lifecycle Management Platform connects software engineering practices with operational technology giving manufacturers resiliency with the visibility control and confidence they need to innovate safely.We’re engineers builders and problem-solvers driven by one mission:Keep industry moving forward.Copia is building the modern engineering platform for industrial automation. Industrial organizations operate critical infrastructure on PLCs SCADA and OT networks. These environments power manufacturing energy food production and infrastructure worldwide. Most of them still rely on fragmented tooling and manual workflows that would not be tolerated in any modern software environment.Copia closes that gap. We bring the discipline of modern software engineering to operational technology teams giving controls engineers and IT security teams the version control change management and operational resilience their environments demand.Two concepts define what we do:Industrial Code Lifecycle Management (ICLM) applies structured lifecycle practices to automation code and configuration management. Think DevOps for the plant floor. It enables industrial teams to manage PLC logic configurations and automation assets with version control traceability and controlled deployment processes. No more tribal knowledge. No more manual backups on USB drives. No more mystery around what changed when and who made the call.Operational Technology Disaster Recovery (OTDR) ensures automation systems can be rapidly restored after failures cyber incidents or operational disruptions. It covers backup validation system restoration procedures and resilience planning for industrial control systems. When ransomware hits or equipment fails production gets back online in hours not weeks.Together ICLM and OTDR form the foundation for secure resilient industrial automation environments. Copia is the platform that makes both operationally real.

Why Work With Us

At Copia you’ll work with some of the most advanced industrial and engineering organizations in the world. You’ll help them adopt modern tools that improve how engineering teams collaborate manage code and operate critical infrastructure.Copia is growing incredibly quickly as a company thus all roles are seen as "growth track" roles.