SCHED ยท 1 day ago
Engineering Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $190K/yrSched is a profitable event management platform seeking a senior engineering leader to drive a turnaround in engineering execution. The role focuses on restoring predictable delivery, modernizing codebases, and integrating AI into product development.
AppsEventsReservationsSaaSSchedulingSoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
Restore predictable shipping through clear ownership and standards
Increase reliability and operational confidence
Modernize the platform pragmatically while continuing to ship product
Shape architecture and data foundations so AI can be built into the product, not layered on later
Build an AI-enabled development workflow and prepare the platform to operate effectively in an AI-accelerated era of software development
Lead a small, mixed team of full-time engineers and contractors
Establish clear expectations around ownership, quality, and delivery
Address underperformance and role clarity directly and constructively
Build a culture of accountability, learning, and follow-through
Assess a long-lived PHP codebase and identify what truly matters to fix
Modernize in phases that support business momentum
Use AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) as force multipliers for documentation, refactoring, testing, and design
Improve observability, incident response, and operational confidence
Partner with Product, Revenue, and Ops to align scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs
Translate technical decisions into clear business implications
Qualification
Required
Experience leading an engineering turnaround
Ability to clarify ownership and expectations
Experience raising quality and delivery standards
Ability to make tough calls on scope, people, and process
Experience modernizing a long-lived codebase without putting the business at risk
Ability to restore predictable shipping through clear ownership and standards
Experience increasing reliability and operational confidence
Ability to modernize the platform pragmatically while continuing to ship product
Experience shaping architecture and data foundations for AI integration
Ability to build an AI-enabled development workflow
Experience leading a mixed team of full-time engineers and contractors
Ability to establish clear expectations around ownership, quality, and delivery
Experience addressing underperformance and role clarity directly and constructively
Ability to build a culture of accountability, learning, and follow-through
Experience assessing and modernizing a PHP codebase
Ability to improve observability, incident response, and operational confidence
Experience partnering with Product, Revenue, and Ops to align scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs
Ability to translate technical decisions into clear business implications
Preferred
Experience using AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) for documentation, refactoring, testing, and design
Experience modernizing in a way that treats event and scheduling data as long-term context for AI-driven features
Experience enabling experimentation with AI-native product capabilities
Experience assuming AI will be implicit in future product decisions
Benefits
401(k) with 5% match
Medical, dental, and vision through Aetna
Life insurance
25 days PTO
Schedcations: company-paid team gatherings in places like Morocco, Japan, Cambodia, and Colombia. Part work, part adventure.
Company
SCHED
Sched powers thousands of events with scheduling software, mobile applications, and personal agenda builders.
Founded in 2008
11-50 employees
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