Product Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Product-engineering leadership translate the AI-driven IDE vision into actionable roadmaps, sprint goals, and acceptance criteria; focus and prioritise what ships next.
• Own the release pipeline end-to-end branch strategy, CI/CD, automated testing, versioned builds, and demo-day readiness.
• Hands-on development pair-program, review PRs, and jump into critical-path code (TypeScript/Node, Go/Rust, or Python) whenever the team is blocked.
• Coach & unblock the team micro-manage 6-10 engineers until velocity feels effortless; in stil clear definition of done and code-quality gates.
• Embed AI in the workflow push AI coding tools / IDE to their limits; wire LLM services into new features.
• Drive a ship-fast, iterate-faster culture short sprints, clean merges, nightly builds, zero demo day surprises.
• Sweat the details performance, polish, and great UX in every release.
  

Must-Have Experience

• 8 to 12 yrs engineering, with 3+ yrs leading product teams for SaaS, IDE plugins, or dev-tool startups.
• Expert in Git flow and conflict resolution.
• Hands-on with modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure Pipelines) for cross platform desktop or VS Code extension builds.
• End-to-end test strategy ownership (unit ? integration ? Playwright/Cypress).
• Strong coding skills in TS/JS plus one systems language (Go, Rust, or C++).
• Comfortable running local or hosted LLMs and wiring them into product features.
  

You'll Be a Good Fit If You

• Were a cracked builder before the Al wave.
• Have Al fully embedded in your workflow but didn't need it to be great.
• Know how to use tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Google CLI, Windsurf, Replit, and Lovable and push them to the limit.
• Can build entirely functional prototypes within 1-2 hours using AI tools.
• Have built products people use (and love).
• Care more about who you work with than what you work on.
• Ship fast, iterate faster, and value momentum over perfection.
• See coding as craft performance, polish, and UX matter to you.
• Are allergic to bureaucracy and energized by ownership