Engineering Manager, AI-First Compose – Remote

Mural; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mural is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to guide the Compose team in building and scaling our AI-native product. You will oversee delivery end-to-end, set technical standards, and maintain high velocity with reliability as user adoption grows.

You will lead architecture decisions, review code, and foster a remote-first, high-performing engineering culture across the organization. Expect close collaboration with Product and Design and a focus on fast, data-driven iteration.

Qualifications

• Leads and grows a team of software engineers with hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• 5+ years hands-on software engineering experience in production applications.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions and review code with credibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, coaching, and performance management.
• Own delivery end to end with a fast, experimental loop: ship early to real users, measure what works, and iterate quickly without losing reliability.
• Partner with Product and Design as co-owners of the Compose roadmap, using customer feedback and usage data to decide what to build, cut, or double down on.
• Raise engineering craft across testing, observability, and AI-assisted development, and model Mural's remote-first, work-in-public culture at a sustainable pace.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Architecture review

Experimentation bias

Communication skills

Empathy

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Azure OpenAI

React

Node

MongoDB

Job description

Mural is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to guide the Compose team in building and scaling our AI-native product. You will oversee delivery end-to-end, set technical standards, and maintain high velocity with reliability as user adoption grows.

You will lead architecture decisions, review code, and foster a remote-first, high-performing engineering culture across the organization. Expect close collaboration with Product and Design and a focus on fast, data-driven iteration.