Engineering Manager, Compose

Mural
United States +2 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior engineering leaders who have experience managing AI-powered software teams and building scalable products in a remote-first environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in AI development and team leadership in remote-first settings
    — “remote-first, work-in-public culture at a sustainable pace”
  • Individuals who have led teams to deliver large language model features and manage their performance
    — “Experience leading a team that shipped LLM-powered features to production”
  • Candidates who can balance technical rigor with people-first leadership in a fast-moving environment
    — “A people-first approach: you lead with empathy, listen first, and build the trust and psychological safety”

Things to consider

  • This role demands recent hands-on technical experience, not just managerial skills
    — “5+ years of prior experience as a software engineer building and operating production applications”
  • The candidate must be comfortable with high-velocity development and user feedback loops
    — “Own delivery end to end with a fast, experimental loop: ship early to real users”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your hands-on technical contributions alongside leadership achievements in AI projects
    — “Expect a very hands-on role. You'll review PRs, set the technical standards”
  • Emphasize your ability to lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design stakeholders
    — “Partner with Product and Design as co-owners of the Compose roadmap”
  • Showcase your experience with AI-assisted development and observability practices
    — “Raise engineering craft across testing, observability, and AI-assisted development”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Successful delivery of AI-native product
  • High-performing team building
Typical background
Experience in software engineering and management

Skills & requirements

Required

Software EngineeringTeam ManagementProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipRemote-first Management

Preferred

AI DevelopmentLlm-powered Feature Development

Stack & domain

Full-stack EngineeringTeam ManagementLeadershipCommunicationAISoftware Development

About the role

Original posting from Mural via Ashby

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Mural Compose team is ambitious and fast-moving. We are passionate builders who love to experiment and iterate. Our project is seeking to leverage the latest technology in AI to acquire new customers and expand our revenue base as broadly as possible. This team is at the front of our product strategy and future growth.

YOUR MISSION

You'll lead the team behind one of Mural's most important bets. In the near term, you'll take our AI native product from early access to a product that customers rely on every day, raising quality, reliability, and speed as more users come on board.

Expect a very hands-on role. You'll review PRs, set the technical standards the team builds to, and stay close to the code and architecture decisions. You'll also keep the team's pace high and sustainable while building a high-performing team in a remote-first way.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Lead, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, coaching, and performance management.
  • Own delivery end to end with a fast, experimental loop: ship early to real users, measure what works, and iterate quickly without losing reliability.
  • Partner with Product and Design as co-owners of the Compose roadmap, using customer feedback and usage data to decide what to build, cut, or double down on.
  • Raise engineering craft across testing, observability, and AI-assisted development, and model Mural's remote-first, work-in-public culture at a sustainable pace.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

  • 2+ years managing software engineers directly, with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • 5+ years of prior experience as a software engineer building and operating production applications, with hands-on technical work in the last 3–4 years.
  • A solid technical foundation, enough to lead architecture discussions and review code with credibility.
  • A bias for experimentation: you make sound calls quickly, learn from data, and change course when the evidence says so.
  • A people-first approach: you lead with empathy, listen first, and build the trust and psychological safety that help each person do their best work.
  • Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs clearly to product, business, and customer stakeholders.
  • Experience leading a team that shipped LLM-powered features to production, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management.
  • Experience building AI agents, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, or familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Our Stack

Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Source: Mural careers (Ashby)

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