Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise

spellbook.com; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Spellbook.com seeks an experienced engineering leader to drive the adaptation of software for enterprise customers. You will manage backend, full-stack, and forward-deployed engineers, owning the plan for what the team builds, prototypes, and defers.

The role combines technical leadership with delivery planning, customer-facing collaboration, and hands-on judgment to balance urgent deal needs with long-term product priorities.

Qualifications

• At least five years of software development experience with technical leadership in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience leading engineers and delivering production software.
• Experience working with sales or customer-facing teams on enterprise scoping, demos, integrations, technical diligence, security, or procurement reviews.
• Strong system design and backend or full-stack skills.
• Sound judgment in prioritizing requests, explaining trade-offs, and pushing back when needed.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into focused plans and shipped outcomes.
• Regular use of coding agents or similar AI tools, with concrete examples of their impact.
• Clear communication across engineering, sales, product, and customer groups.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer requests and product bets into a prioritized engineering plan with owners, milestones, and risks.
• Work with sales on prospective and active enterprise deals, assessing feasibility, effort, integrations, and technical review needs.
• Lead time-boxed prototypes and proofs of concept; decide which should become production work or reusable product capabilities.
• Coach, grow, and hire engineers, setting clear expectations while keeping processes practical.
• Coordinate dependencies across engineering teams and surface delivery blockers early.
• Review important designs and code, prototype when useful, and contribute to difficult technical decisions.
• Partner with product, design, and customer success to shape work and feed deployment learnings into the core product.
• Apply coding agents and automated review where they improve engineering speed or quality.

Skills

Leadership

Backend

Full-stack

Sales collaboration

System design

Communication

AI tools

Planning & prioritization

Job description

Role overview

Lead the engineering work that adapts software for enterprise customers, balancing urgent deal needs with product priorities and long-term maintainability. You’ll manage and develop backend, full-stack, and forward‑deployed engineers while owning the plan for what the team builds, prototypes, and defers. The role combines technical leadership, delivery planning, customer‑facing collaboration, and hands‑on judgment.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer requests and product bets into a prioritized engineering plan with owners, milestones, and risks.
• Work with sales on prospective and active enterprise deals, assessing feasibility, effort, integrations, and technical review needs.
• Lead time-boxed prototypes and proofs of concept; decide which should become production work or reusable product capabilities.
• Coach, grow, and hire engineers, setting clear expectations while keeping processes practical.
• Coordinate dependencies across engineering teams and surface delivery blockers early.
• Review important designs and code, prototype when useful, and contribute to difficult technical decisions.
• Partner with product, design, and customer success to shape work and feed deployment learnings into the core product.
• Apply coding agents and automated review where they improve engineering speed or quality.

Requirements

• At least five years of software development experience, including technical leadership in a fast‑moving environment.
• Experience leading engineers and delivering production software.
• Experience working with sales or customer‑facing teams on enterprise scoping, demos, integrations, technical diligence, security, or procurement reviews.
• Strong system design and backend or full‑stack skills.
• Sound judgment in prioritizing requests, explaining trade‑offs, and constructively pushing back when needed.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into focused plans and shipped outcomes.
• Regular use of coding agents or similar AI tools, with concrete examples of their impact.
• Clear communication across engineering, sales, product, and customer groups.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise SaaS deployments, integrations, forward‑deployed or solutions engineering, security and compliance, LLM products, or rapid prototyping for prospective customers.