The Role
As an engineering manager, you will lead a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality code development, collaborating with design and product teams, and driving the organization's security and quality standards while facilitating agile processes.
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About Iru
Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back.
Iru is backed by some of the smartest investors in tech—General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, and First Round Capital. In July 2024, Iru raised $100 million from General Catalyst, valuing the company at $850 million. Customers include Notion, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and Mercor, and Iru partners with industry leaders such as ServiceNow and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction.
The Opportunity:
As an engineering manager at Iru, you will design and build the core services that power our web application, while maintaining security and scalability. You will work alongside our macOS and Infrastructure engineers to bring world class products to market.
We are looking for an engineering manager with experience empowering teams to ship large-scale, mission-critical enterprise software.
How You Will Make a Difference Day to Day:
- Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship high-quality code and tackle hard engineering problems
- Understand and report on progress and pacing of initiatives
- Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, inclusivity, innovation, learning, respect, and transparency while holding a high bar for craftsmanship
- Contribute to and/or execute on the organization’s vision and standards around security, quality, observability, and clean code
- Share your knowledge with team members by reviewing code, collaborating on design documents, giving technical talks, formal mentorship, and JIT feedback
- Collaborate closely with the Design and Product teams to ensure that your team has a well-defined roadmap
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, code quality, automated testing, or other engineering best practices
- Facilitate the squad’s agile meetings by taking on the scrum master role
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 7+ years of experience designing, building and deploying scalable frontend and backend applications leveraging modern languages and frameworks (Python, Django, FastAPI and React preferred)
- 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Experience driving the design and implementation of large-scale initiatives for SaaS products
- Experience working in high growth startup environments and comfortable balancing tactical and strategic considerations
- Deep understanding of agile methodologies/mindset and experience facilitating agile ceremonies
- Thrives in an environment with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
- Strong communication skills with a customer focus
- Quality first mindset
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Required to work on-site 3x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables).
Nice to haves, but NOT required:
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary
Hybrid work environment (3 days in office per week)
100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage
401(K) with a 4% company match
20 days PTO
Iru Wellness Week the first week in July
Equity for full-time employees
In-office lunch stipend provided
Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
Paid Family and Medical Leave
Modern Health mental health benefits for individuals and dependents
Fertility benefits
Working Advantage employee discounts
Onsite fitness center
Free parking
Exciting opportunities for career growth
We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.
At Iru, we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.
Iru is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law. #LI-Hybrid
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Django
Fastapi
GCP
Python
React
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The Company
What We Do
Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back.
