Engineering Manager

Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 80+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.

Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable commerce brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, DIMO, and more.

We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more!

Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!

The Role

As the engineering manager for our core team, you will lead and define the Lazer experience for 30 engineers, which will grow in the next year. You will become the first point of contact for the group, balancing engineering excellence goals with ensuring engineers have a good experience to continue our historically incredibly high retention.

This includes:

• Ensure that engineers operate at a high level and provide quality work for our clients.

  • Collaborating closely with the project delivery leaders to understand ongoing project context and help resolve issues if they arise.

  • Conducting regular performance feedback cycles to ensure engineers understand their performance goals and are consistently improving.

  • Mentoring and coaching engineers on technical growth as well as project management and communication skills as needed.

• Managing engineering up-skilling by coordinating, encouraging and helping engineers expand their skillsets, particularly around AI application engineering.

• Overseeing bench projects for engineers between projects to produce PoCs, perspectives, or help with training.

• Managing allocation of engineers to new projects by working closely with the sales team while understanding engineer preferences and skills.

• Drive recruitment efforts to help grow the team scale:

  • Deciding skillsets and industries based on industry trends and sales projections.

  • Assessing new candidates to ensure optimal fits in technical skills and culture.

• Continue building an optimal culture of being “the best place for engineers.”

  • Ensuring appropriate work-life balance and engineer satisfaction overall.

  • Create initiatives to promote knowledge sharing and cross-project collaboration.

• Designing new processes and initiatives to push the team forward as it grows.

• Reporting on engineer satisfaction, skills distribution, allocation projections, and other important metrics to the wider Lazer org.

Requirements

You would be leading some of the best engineers in product development, requiring both deep technical knowledge as well as strong leadership and communication skills.

• Strong experience as an engineer in the startups, venture building, product development space working across the stack.

  • Including frontend, backend, and infra experience.

• Deep understanding of the AI space across different disciplines including machine learning, LLMs, generative imagery, etc.

• Proven experience in engineering management and leadership over multiple teams in a fast-paced product environment.

• Record of building and growing teams in the startup or AI space.

• Experience building and maintaining culture in a remote-first environment.

• Excellent communication skills to effectively engage with other leaders as well as build rapport and trust with engineers.

Nice to Have

The following would be bonus experience, though feel free to highlight any additional experience or skills you may have. We like working with people with varied backgrounds and experiences.

• Experience working in a technical consulting leadership role.

• Experience defining strategy for an engineering function.

• Experience with development in mobile, web3 / crypto, and commerce.

• Familiarity with UI/UX design and branding workflows and best practices.

• Experience working in or supporting sales-related engineering activity.

• Relevant industry certifications or publications.

Benefits & Perks

• 🌐 Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace — all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!

• 🧘‍♂️ Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.

• 💪 Flexible Employment: Want to work full time or on contract? You choose! Work with us in the way that suits you best, with pay that's competitive.

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.

• 🎉 Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii — plus ones welcome.