Engineering Manager

Lumos has grown quite a bit recently, supported by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a dedicated team of almost 70, and a customer base that has swelled five-fold in the last year. In order to double down our investment and support accelerating growth, we’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our teams. You'd be among the first 100 employees, set the foundation for extreme growth, double the engineering headcount on your team and work closely together with our co-founders. 🚀

✨ Your Responsibilities

• 🚀 Manage and scale a highly successful new engineering team — onboard, coach, and mentor engineers, and lead hiring as we continue growing rapidly.
• 🌱 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 as well as other engineering teams to define and execute on our product roadmap. Oversee a large swath of our engineering surface area, while simultaneously iterating on brand new use cases and target customers.
• 🦄 Build an incredible user experiences, by both skillfully managing the team and building deep product and business context to guide the team’s vision.

⛰ Your Skills

• 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.
• Customer Focus. You demonstrate deep empathy for the users you build for, think problem-first rather than solution-first, are mindful of how to make tradeoffs while solutioning. You have a passion to build world-class products and skill in understanding how to effectively solve customer challenges with a sharp engineering team in a scrappy, early-stage entrepreneurial environment.
• Technical Depth. You have a strong technical background, and can guide discussions of architecture, technical debt, and long-term technical strategy as needed.
• 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.

💰Pay Range 

• $195,000 - $270,000. Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.

🙌 What We Value

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! 🤝