Engineering Manager

Salary: $120,000 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• • Youve led or been part of a real engineering turnaround.
• • You enjoy bringing order to ambiguity.
• • You can balance pragmatism with ambition.
• • Youre excited by making a legacy system AI-ready.
• • You want your work to materially change how a company grows.

Responsibilities:

• • Lead an engineering turnaround to make the company meaningfully faster and safer.
• • Restore predictable shipping through clear ownership and standards.
• • Increase reliability and operational confidence.
• • Modernize the platform pragmatically while continuing to ship product.
• • Shape architecture and data foundations so AI can be built into the product.
• • Build an AI-enabled development workflow and prepare the platform for an AI-accelerated era.
• • Lead a small, mixed team of full-time engineers and contractors.
• • Establish clear expectations around ownership, quality, and delivery.
• • Address underperformance and role clarity directly and constructively while building a culture of accountability, learning, and follow-through.
• • Assess a long-lived PHP codebase to identify essential fixes.
• • Modernize in phases that support business momentum.
• • Utilize AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to enhance documentation, refactoring, testing, and design.
• • Modernize with a focus on treating event and scheduling data as a long-term asset.
• • Improve observability, incident response, and operational confidence.
• • Partner with Product, Revenue, and Operations to align scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• • Translate technical decisions into clear business implications.

Technologies:

• AI
• Copilot
• Cursor
• Support
• PHP
• CTO
• Python

More:

Why this role exists (and why now):
Sched is a profitable, $5M ARR event management platform on a clear path to exceed $15M. Customers rely on Sched to run complex, multi-day, multi-track events around the world. The business is healthy and the product proven. Currently, engineering execution is the constraint, creating a major opportunity to unlock faster delivery, higher confidence in execution, and a platform that can evolve quickly and responsibly in an AI-accelerated world. The role is designed for a senior engineering leader ready to tighten delivery, restore reliability, and modernize a long-lived codebase without risking the business.

What this role entails:
Fixing the current challenges will result in fewer surprises, clearer timelines, calmer operations, and a platform that the team can evolve quickly with confidence.

This job is not for you if…
• Youre looking for a fully mature, well-oiled engineering organization.
• You avoid tough people or ownership decisions.
• You prefer consensus over decisiveness when delivery slips.
• You optimize for shiny tech rather than business outcomes.
• You want influence without accountability.

What we offer:
• OTE (base + variable): $120k–$190k USD.
• Base salary range: $120k–$150k depending on experience.
• 401(k) with 5% match.
• Medical, dental, and vision through Aetna.
• Life insurance.
• 25 days PTO.
• 100% remote, global team.
• Schedcations: company-paid team gatherings in locations such as Morocco, Japan, Cambodia, and Colombia.
• Real ownership, real influence, and room to grow with the company.

Hiring process:
• Initial screen: Alignment on role, expectations, and compensation.
• Deep dive: CEO conversation and cross-functional panel.
• Working session: A practical walkthrough of a real scenario from our world, followed by references and an offer if its a mutual fit.

last updated 9 week of 2026