Engineering Manager, API/Product

What You’ll Do

• Manage and grow the teams spanning our product experience, giving engineers real ownership and holding them to a high bar.
• Develop a strong understanding of what developers and agents need from Convex and use it to make tradeoffs between competing priorities.
• Work closely with our CTO and product lead to align the teams on priorities and make sure we're building the right things at the right time.
• Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.
• Design, build, and maintain the developer-facing surfaces of Convex alongside the teams.
• Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.

What Excites Us

• Deep experience building and shipping high-quality developer-facing products or tools, ideally at a technical or developer tools company.
• A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.
• Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and agents need from a platform like Convex.
• Strong product sensibility and taste. You care about closing the gap between something that works and something that's a genuine pleasure to use.
• Comfort with prioritization and tradeoffs across a broad surface area, and the judgment to know what matters for customers and what matters for the business.
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.
• Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.

Ideal Characteristics

• Deeply technical: have opinions about technical decisions, can evaluate the work their team is doing, and earn respect through judgment.
• Develop people, not just ship software: give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, help them get better, have hard conversations.
• Do it for the why: ensure the team understands the rationale behind what they're building.
• Obsessed with craft: sweat the details, hold a high bar for how things feel to build with.
• Value simplicity and pragmatism: bias toward doing fewer things better, push back on unnecessary complexity.
• Bring energy to the room: be constructive, positive, and excited.
• Worthy of trust: honest, go to bat for the team, do the right thing.