Engineering Manager, Compose

The role

You will lead a team of full-stack engineers to take an AI native product from early access to a reliable product for customers. You will perform hands-on work including reviewing PRs, setting technical standards, and making architecture decisions.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers through 1:1s, coaching, and performance management
• Own end to end delivery with an experimental loop of shipping, measuring, and iterating
• Partner with Product and Design as co-owners of the Compose roadmap
• Use customer feedback and usage data to decide product direction
• Raise engineering craft across testing, observability, and AI-assisted development
• Model Mural's remote-first, work-in-public culture
• Review PRs and set technical standards
• Stay close to code and architecture decisions

Required qualifications

• 2+ years managing software engineers directly, with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance management
• 5+ years of prior experience as a software engineer building and operating production applications
• Hands-on technical work in the last 3–4 years
• Solid technical foundation to lead architecture discussions and review code
• A bias for experimentation
• A people-first approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience leading a team that shipped LLM-powered features to production, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, or familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

About the company

The Mural Compose team is ambitious and fast-moving. They are seeking to leverage the latest technology in AI to acquire new customers and expand revenue.