Engineering Manager - AI-Driven, 3-Pod Leader

SaaS Venture Capital LLC; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited PTO

Flexible hybrid office

401(k) with match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

equipifi is seeking an Engineering Manager to bring performance management and operational rigor to our growing engineering organization. You will lead three pods, focusing on fast delivery with quality, building KPI dashboards, and driving daily deployment cadence through automated testing and DORA metrics.

You’ll report to the CTO and collaborate with another Engineering Manager, the Principal Architect, and the engineers across three pods.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer before moving into management, so you know what good technical work looks like, can spot it, and coach towards it in others.
• 3+ years as an engineering manager; you've done this long enough to know what works.
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing, not just in theory. You know what it takes to get a team shipping daily and quality staying high while they do it.
• Fluency with DORA metrics or a comparable framework for measuring engineering throughput and health.
• Comfortable with Go, and with Node.js/TypeScript, you don't need to be deep in both, but you need real experience with each.
• You’ve used Linear or a comparable ticketing system to run cycles, not just track tickets.
• AI-native mindset: you're already using tools like Claude or Codex to move faster, not waiting to be told to.
• You know how to manage in every direction, up to your CTO, sideways with Product and Ops, down to your engineers, and you adjust your message depending on who's in the room.
• Bonus points if you've worked with Temporal, or in a high-security or compliance-heavy environment.

Responsibilities

• Build a high-performing team by hiring, coaching, 1:1s, performance management, and promotions across three pods.
• Own engineering systems, track throughput and architecture decisions, and push deployment cadence from weekly to daily with automated testing.
• Unblock horizontally by translating product requirements into technical scope and ensuring the right people work on the right problems at the right time.

Skills

Software Engineering

Engineering Management

Continuous Delivery

Automated Testing

DORA Metrics

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

Linear

AI Tools (Claude)

Cross-functional Leadership

Tools

Claude

Codex

Temporal

Job description

equipifi is seeking an Engineering Manager to bring performance management and operational rigor to our growing engineering organization. You will lead three pods, focusing on fast delivery with quality, building KPI dashboards, and driving daily deployment cadence through automated testing and DORA metrics.

You’ll report to the CTO and collaborate with another Engineering Manager, the Principal Architect, and the engineers across three pods.