Engineering Manager, Apps & APIs

<div class="p-rich_text_section"> <p>We're hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead Recast’s Apps &amp; API team: the engineers who own the customer-facing surface of Recast's marketing mix modeling platform. That includes our flagship MMM application, agentic apps, public APIs, and MCP server. You’ll build and lead a high-performing team while staying close to the technical work through architecture decisions and the occasional PR review.</p> </div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">&nbsp;</div> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">What you might do in your first 6 months:</strong></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li>Grow and lead a team of 4-7 direct reports: dig in and understand their work, their goals, and what’s in their way</li> <li>Establish team norms and a working culture that sets people up to do their best work with clear expectations and honest feedback</li> <li>Improve how the team works: drive clarity on priorities, healthier processes, better cross-functional handoffs</li> <li>Own the team’s execution roadmap and delivery: scope and sequence work, unblocking your team early and often</li> <li>Partner with Product to align your team’s priorities and goals with the overall Product roadmap and initiatives</li> <li>Help shape and ship our MCP server from early-stage to production-grade</li> <li>Drive a public API strategy that prioritizes reliability and developer experience</li> <li>Support and strengthen the delivery team behind our web application and agentic apps</li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Things you have experience in:</strong></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li>Managing a team of globally-distributed software engineers - mentoring, coaching, and occasionally having the hard conversations</li> <li>Staying technical enough to be useful in architecture discussions and code reviews without being the bottleneck</li> <li>Translating ambiguous product goals into concrete engineering deliverables</li> <li>Shipping in a fast-paced SaaS environment where "good enough to learn from" beats "perfect but late"</li> <li>A strong technical background in web and API development (our app stack is Ruby on Rails, with Rails &amp; Python APIs)</li> <li>Designing and shipping production APIs with real external consumers - you think about DevEx, versioning and reliability as much as you think about feature delivery&nbsp;</li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Things that should excite you that might scare off other folks:</strong></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li>Owning the full customer-facing surface of a product with technical users: your users are developers, marketing analysts and data scientists - they notice when something isn’t right</li> <li>Building with emerging tech like MCP and agentic AI: you’re willing to make opinionated architectural bets in a landscape that is continually evolving</li> <li>Helping shape what “effective” looks like for an AI-native engineering team: defining the tools, guardrails, and standards that actually help us go faster</li> <li>Managing a remote, async-first team spread across time zones where clear written communication is essential</li> <li>Growing a team that's medium-sized today but won't stay that way forever</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hiring Process:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Hiring Screen</strong> - discuss Recast, your background, and questions you have</li> <li><strong>Hiring Manager Interview</strong> - casual, mutual-fit conversation with our Head of Engineering</li> <li><strong>Architecture &amp; Systems Interview</strong> - includes a short take-home assignment; the interview includes your presentation followed by Q&amp;A</li> <li><strong>Leadership &amp; People Interview</strong> - a deeper dive with our Head of Engineering on how you build, grow, and manage a team</li> <li><strong>Product Collaboration Interview</strong> - talk through how you approach the EM/PM partnership day-to-day</li> <li><strong>Final Interview</strong> - meet with Recast's CEO to talk about Recast and your goals</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we offer you:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work wherever you’re happiest. We're fully remote</li> <li>Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity</li> <li>Highly skilled coworkers you can learn from and who are eager to learn from you</li> <li>An async-first culture with a focus on documentation over standing meetings</li> <li>Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time</li> <li>Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO!)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Note:</strong></p> <p>Recast is committed to building a diverse team so if you are from an under-represented background in tech (e.g., women, BIPOC, etc.) please apply even if you don’t necessarily check all of the boxes here.</p> <p>While Recast is officially based in the US, we're a fully remote team (one founder lives in Brooklyn, the other in Mexico City and team members in 6+ countries around the world).&nbsp;We can't sponsor visas at this time, however we are happy to have you join remotely from wherever you are.</p> <p>If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to learn more about you!<br><br>US-based salary range: $170,000-$220,000<br><em>Please note salary ranges are estimated for US-based employees. Candidates from other geographies may have the salary range adjusted based on their local markets.<br><br>We run identity verification and background screening to confirm that the candidate behind the screen is authentic. If offered the position, only verified candidates move forward in our hiring process.<br></em></p>