Engineering Manager - Full Stack & AI

About Chiri

Chiri collapses fragmented software into one governed operating layer for mid-sized businesses: companies with valuable workflows and real urgency, but no internal AI organization to take a use case to production.

We combine our platform with forward-deployed expertise to connect customers' existing systems, build what they need, and operate it in production.

Increasingly, buyers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI systems what they should use. Chiri must be one of their top answers.

Role Overview

We're looking for an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead our distributed engineering team and own day-to-day engineering execution.

This role combines outstanding people leadership, metrics-driven management, engineering operations, customer engagement, and hands-on full-stack development.

You'll report to our Co-Founder and CTO, taking responsibility for engineering management and delivery so the CTO can focus on technology strategy, industry vision, and business development.

This is not a management-only role. We need someone who can lead engineers, manage the operation, engage confidently with customers, and jump into the code when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop engineers. Own performance management, hiring, onboarding, career development, accountability, and team culture.
• Metrics & Delivery: Manage engineering KPIs, productivity, capacity, resource allocation, quality, and delivery commitments across multiple projects. Use data to improve performance and outcomes.
• Engineering Operations: Own development tooling, cloud environments, CI/CD, testing, deployment, security, and engineering logistics. Optimize AI-assisted development workflows, infrastructure costs, and operational efficiency.
• Customer Engagement: Work directly with US and other clients to understand requirements, guide technical solutions, manage delivery expectations, and ensure measurable business outcomes within Chiri's AI MSP model.
• Hands-On Engineering: Contribute to architecture, coding, integrations, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production support. Partner with the CTO on technical standards and implementation.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven people leadership, including direct management, coaching, performance management, and developing high-performing engineering teams in a remote environment.
• Experience managing engineering metrics, delivery operations, resource allocation, and multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, including working with business and technical stakeholders.
• Significant hands-on full-stack engineering background with TypeScript and Python, including backend services, APIs, integrations, and modern frontend frameworks such as React and Next.js.
• Production experience with AWS and/or Azure, Docker, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, Git, CI/CD, SQL, and automated testing.
• Experience building or operating AI-powered applications involving LLMs, agents, or automation workflows.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, security, reliability, and production operations.
• Excellent English communication skills and the ability to lead effectively in a remote environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineering leadership experience in an MSP, consulting, professional services, or forward-deployed engineering environment.
• Experience with AI-native development tools, autonomous coding agents, and engineering productivity analytics.
• Experience with SaaS platforms, enterprise integrations, and managing ongoing security requirements like SOC2.
• Experience scaling engineering teams in startup or high-growth environments, bonus points for experience in working with Latin America teams.

What We Offer

A fully remote, high-ownership leadership role helping shape an AI-native engineering organization. You'll work directly with Chiri's founders, lead talented engineers, and build real-world AI solutions using modern tools and technologies.

Our SCOUT Values

Our values are not wall art. They describe how we expect people to operate.

Seek to Understand

Assume you might be wrong. Clarity before action.

Call It Out

See something, say something. Say the hard thing.

Ownership Mentality

"That's not my job" does not exist.

Use Human Judgment

Judgment, context, and care come from us. AI is a tool.

Talk with Precision

Concise. Intentional.