Engineering Manager

<p><span style="font-weight: bold">E<span style="font-size: 12pt">ngineering Manager</span></span></p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><em>Location: LATAM ·  Work Model: Fully remote  ·  Language: Native Spanish + English C1/C2</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">About Koronet</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">Koronet is the leading vertical SaaS, B2B e-commerce, and payments software company for the global floral industry. Our platform combines an inventory and operations management SaaS with an e-commerce channel that enables end-to-end transactions through the B2B supply chain. We manage over $4B in annual transactions, helping keep florists’ shelves stocked, weddings brightly bloomed, and Valentine’s Day brilliant red.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">The company has offices in Florida, Ecuador, and the Netherlands, with a large development and support office in Medellín, Colombia (the flower growing capital of the world). Our global customers include hundreds of flower growers, importers, and wholesalers whose end customers represent tens of thousands of retail and commercial florists.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">Our mission is to be the unified operating system for the worldwide floral supply chain by providing mission-critical business operations solutions powering the largest B2B e-commerce network. We are backed by Radian Capital, a growth equity fund in New York City with over $1B in AUM, and we are rapidly expanding across North America and Europe, both through organic growth and acquisitions.</span></p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">About the Role</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our feature squads. This is the first level of leadership within the Engineering structure, and it is a deeply hands-on role: the EM is the most senior technical voice of the squad, responsible for architecture, technical decision-making, and the quality of everything the squad ships.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">You will lead a small team of up to 4–5 Software Engineers — senior, highly productive developers who work fluently with AI coding tools and deliver production-grade software every week. You will partner closely with a Product Manager and a UX Designer to turn business problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt">The ideal candidate combines strong engineering fundamentals — backend and frontend, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures — with proven leadership of cross-functional teams and real fluency working alongside AI coding agents in production environments.</span></p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">What You Will Do</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold"><em>Hands-On Engineering & Architecture</em></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Own the technical design of the squad’s products and features — write and review technical specs, define data models, API contracts, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements (performance, security, observability).</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Make the hard architectural calls: service boundaries, consistency vs. availability trade-offs, synchronous vs. event-driven integration, caching strategy, scaling model.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Stay hands-on with code. Read every pull request the squad ships. Write code directly when the problem is high-risk, novel, or requires deep domain judgment — refactors of critical paths, tricky integrations, incident fixes, spikes on new technologies.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Keep technical debt visible and budgeted. Decide what debt is acceptable for velocity and what must be paid down immediately.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Drive engineering standards across testing, code quality, security, CI/CD, observability, and release processes.</span></li> </ul> <p><em><br></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">AI-Augmented Delivery</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Lead how the squad uses AI coding tools day-to-day. Define which problems agents should solve autonomously, which require tight human supervision, and which are better done by humans directly.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Own the validation gate. Nothing ships to production without your technical sign-off, regardless of whether the code was written by an agent or a human. On high-risk systems (Payments, Logistics, Komet Core, integrations), validation is deep — architecture, edge cases, failure modes, security.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Raise the bar on AI productivity across the squad: coach engineers on prompt design, context curation, and output validation; define guardrails; share patterns that work.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Capture and share what the squad learns — in code, in written artifacts, and in reusable prompts or skills that help every project after this one run better.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Evaluate new AI tooling pragmatically — distinguish real productivity gains from hype, and keep the team fast without sacrificing code health.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Project & Delivery Management</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Plan the squad’s roadmap in partnership with PM and UX, balance scope and quality, and give clear visibility to leadership and business stakeholders.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Break initiatives into MVP, R1, R2 with PM and UX from the design phase, so delivery has versioning built in.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Remove blockers fast. Drive the squad’s execution rhythm — retros, checkpoints, learnings capture — without drowning in ceremony.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Participate in incident response and war rooms for the squad’s domain.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">People Management & Coaching</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Run high-quality 1:1s with your Software Engineers. Own their performance reviews, career development plans, and feedback cycles.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Hire, onboard, and ramp up new engineers on both the domain and the squad’s AI-augmented way of working.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strengthen engineering culture, ownership, and a bias for shipping. Protect focus time and sustainable pace.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Cross-Squad & Stakeholder Collaboration</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. Deeply understand the domain (floral supply chain, payments, inventory, e-commerce, logistics — whichever applies to your squad).</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Coordinate with peer EMs on shared concerns: cross-cutting architecture, shared services, platform dependencies, and reusable engineering practices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Act as the point of escalation for both technical and organizational challenges within your squad.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">What We Expect From You</span></p> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Technical Skills (Hands-On Required)</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in production environments, with at least 2 years in a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager role where you continued to write and review code.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strong backend experience with Java or equivalent JVM/typed backend stacks (Kotlin, C#, Go, TypeScript/Node). Solid understanding of backend architectures, REST/GraphQL APIs, async messaging, and third-party integrations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strong frontend experience with modern frameworks (Angular, React, TypeScript). You should be able to pair with a frontend engineer on a complex component and lead the design discussion.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Solid experience with AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM) and cloud-native architectures. Experience with observability (logs, metrics, traces) and CI/CD pipelines as a first-class concern.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Experience designing and evolving distributed systems: service boundaries, data consistency, idempotency, failure handling, and performance at scale.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strong grounding in testing (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end), code quality, and security fundamentals (OWASP basics, authn/authz, secrets management).</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Comfort with SQL and relational data modeling; experience with data-intensive systems is a plus.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">AI-Augmented Engineering</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Daily, production-level use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalent). Not experimentation — actual delivery.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Consistently get high-quality output from agents by designing good context, prompts, and constraints. You know the difference between a vague prompt and one that produces production-grade code.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Sharp judgment on where AI-generated code creates risk — security, hidden bugs, hallucinated APIs, drift from existing patterns — and concrete practices to mitigate those risks in review.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Track record of raising AI productivity across a team: coaching engineers, setting guardrails, and running rigorous review on agent-produced code.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Leadership Skills</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">3–5+ years leading engineering teams, ideally distributed and multicultural.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Proven record of running 1:1s, performance reviews, career plans, hiring, and difficult conversations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strong prioritization and stakeholder management — you can say no, re-scope, and keep business partners aligned.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Fluency with agile practices (Scrum, Kanban) without being dogmatic. You adapt process to team and project, not the other way around.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Bias for ownership, delivery, and learning from production. Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Languages</span></em></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Native Spanish speaker.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Advanced English (C1/C2) — required for written and spoken communication with leadership, product, and international stakeholders.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Nice to Have</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Experience designing or building internal tooling for AI-augmented engineering: shared skill libraries, prompt libraries, MCP servers, multi-agent workflows, or internal AI platform components.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Public contribution to the AI-assisted engineering space — open-source tools, technical writing, conference talks, or internal playbooks shared externally.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Experience leading an engineering team through a full transition to AI-augmented delivery, including redesigning how the team plans, reviews, and ships work.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Experience in vertical SaaS, B2B e-commerce, payments, logistics, or supply chain domains.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Scrum / Agile certifications (PSM, CSM) or experience acting as a Scrum Master during an agile transformation.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Experience scaling engineering teams or products in high-growth, PE-backed environments.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">What We Offer</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Contractor agreement with a competitive salary and performance-based incentives; salary negotiable based on experience.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Fully remote work from anywhere in the Americas.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Unlimited vacations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">A senior, multicultural engineering team and real influence over technical and product strategy across frontend, backend, and AI-augmented delivery.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt">Financial support for studies, training, and certifications — we actively invest in continuous learning.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Why Join Koronet</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">To solve real problems: </span>You will own mission-critical systems that move $4B+ in annual transactions across the global floral supply chain.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Global and remote-first: </span>Work with a diverse team across the Americas and Europe, with flexibility to work from anywhere.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Ownership culture: </span>Small squads, clear ownership, empowered decisions. No layers between you and impact.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Growth and development: </span>We back continuous professional growth with time, budget, and real stretch opportunities.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Modern ways of working: </span>Join a team that treats AI-augmented engineering as a serious discipline, not a novelty.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"> </span></p> <p><em>If you’re passionate about engineering excellence, love being hands-on, and want to lead a high-performing, AI-fluent squad in a fast-growing B2B SaaS — we want to hear from you.</em></p>

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