Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Kojo, a fast-growing construction technology company, as a hands-on Vendor Integrations Engineering Manager. You will make direct contributions to code, manage a team of software engineers, support product managers and vendor partners, and lead quarterly planning. This role requires strong technical skills and experience building SaaS products. The position is fully remote, based in Central or South America (with a preference for Mexico, Colombia, and Chile), and offers a competitive salary and equity grant. Kojo values diversity and inclusion and is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company offers a full suite of perks and benefits for US-based employees, details of which can be found on their careers page.

Requirements

• Strong technical background, and proven track record of building complex customer-facing SaaS products (7+ years professional and management experience preferred)
• Experience working with Github, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, node.js/TypeScript (or a similar tech stack)
• Experience in collaboration across timezones and effective leadership in a remote environment
• Team player who enjoys learning, teaching, and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Make hands-on contributions to the goals of Kojo’s vendor crew in the areas of building/testing/deploying code
• Manage the vendor team of software engineers and ensure that they are delivering on the right priorities (and neither drop the ball nor get side tracked by distractions)
• Support product manager and vendor partner managers by answering technical questions from vendors and partnering with vendors to build integrations
• Shepherd quarterly planning process for the vendor crew, including cataloging and managing our technical debt and making continuous improvements to ongoing areas of technical challenges
• Participate in engineering incident response and apply high standards of stability and maintainability to the area of ownership
• Manage projects by coordinating across product, design, and engineering, scoping tickets, unblocking engineers, and considering interactions with other parts of the product
• Represent the vendor team’s abilities and growth opportunities to the rest of engineering and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

7+ years professional and management experience

Benefits

• Salary: Commensurate with experience and location, the salary range for this position is between $75,000-$100,000 USD
• Equity grant
• Full suite of perks and benefits (for US-based full-time employees)
• Remote work