Software Engineering Manager

As a Software Engineering Manager at Coder, you’ll steer a team of 5-10 world‑class software engineers. You unblock, uplift, and focus the team on the problems that matter - delivering a cutting-edge developer platform loved by customers.

What you’ll do here

• Lead, coach, and grow a tight‑knit squad of engineers

• Translate product vision into clear technical roadmaps, driving execution end‑to‑end

• Hold a high bar for code quality, security, and performance, and instill best practices

• Collaborate across Product, Design, and GTM to prioritise customer impact

• Remain hands‑on by reviewing PRs, debugging prod issues, and prototyping

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years in software development, with 1+ year leading teams

• Proven track record of shipping software to large enterprise customers

• Experience contributing to or leading open source projects

Deep technical foundation in:

• Linux

• Kubernetes & containers

• At least one major public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• IP networking & HTTP fundamentals

Our tech stack

• Backend: Go, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC

• Frontend: Typescript, React, Vite

• IDE Extensions: Typescript, Kotlin

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

• General: GitHub, Slack, Discord, Notion

Bonus tacos if you have

• (Tacos? If you need an ice-breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)

• Significant professional experience with our tech stack

• Prior work on developer tooling

• Public open source contributions

• You still carve out time to code, either at work or on passion projects

About Coder

Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle.

Coder’s self-hosted Cloud Development Environment (CDE) is the foundation for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. It provides a secure, standardized, and governed workspace to deploy autonomous coding agents alongside human developers, accelerating innovation while maintaining control and compliance. Coder's isolated, policy-driven environments improve productivity, cut cloud costs, and reduce data risks. Developers transition to AI at their own pace using their own tools. Platform and security teams can govern, audit, and manage a great developer experience at scale.

Interview Process 

We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to get through the interview process in two to four weeks if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and leadership.

Coder is a Proud Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.