Engineering Manager (Core Applications Platform)

Join Copia as an Engineering Manager for our new Core Applications Platform team. You will lead a group of full-stack software engineers, define the team's direction, and drive the technical architecture. This role is ideal for a hands-on manager who enjoys building teams from scratch and shaping the engineering organization's product development.

• Construire et diriger une nouvelle équipe de développement d'applications, en gérant le cycle de vie complet du recrutement, de l'intégration et de la croissance continue des membres de l'équipe.
• Définir la charte et la direction de l'équipe, en traduisant les objectifs de haut niveau en une feuille de route claire et en des jalons de livraison bien définis.
• Superviser l'architecture des plateformes partagées, y compris les frameworks frontend, les services backend, les API et les primitives multi-locataires, et garantir leur évolutivité.
• Demonstrated ability to coach engineers — helping them grow technically, take on bigger scope, and develop in their careers
• Empathy, humility, and high standards. You are kind to people and tough on problems
• Experience delivering a product or capability with engineers as the end users (an internal platform, SDK, design system, framework, shared services layer, or developer-tools product). You know how to treat other engineers as real customers
• A strong technical foundation across the stack - frontend, backend, APIs, and data - and the judgment to design shared application capabilities that other engineers will want to build on
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong written and verbal communication. You can adjust your message for engineers, executives, and partner teams without losing the substance
• 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years of formal or informal people-leadership experience (tech lead, team lead, or direct management)
• Sound judgment around prioritization, scope, and trade-offs, which includes knowing when to ship a focused MVP versus investing in the right foundation and when to say "no" or "not yet" to internal customers
• Experience starting a new team from zero — defining charter, hiring the first engineers, and establishing how it works with the rest of the org
• Experience building shared application platforms, frameworks, design systems, or internal SDKs that were adopted by multiple internal product teams
• Experience with some of our stack or adjacent technologies on both sides of the wire: TypeScript / Node.js, React, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Datadog
• Familiarity with multi-tenant architecture, identity / authn / authz patterns, feature flags, and other primitives that show up repeatedly across products
• Experience standing up or improving engineering practices: incident response, on-call, ADRs, code review standards, or career ladders
• Background in B2B SaaS, developer tools, industrial automation, OT/IT, manufacturing software, or IoT