Zencoder hiring Engineering Manager • Remote (Work from Home) | Himalayas
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Engineering Manager

Zencoder is an AI startup that provides AI-powered coding agents designed to automate software development tasks, improve code quality, and accelerate development cycles for developers and engineering teams. [1, 3, 15]

Zencoder

Employee count: 51-200

About Zencoder

Zencoder is building the next generation of AI coding agents — advanced tools that supercharge developer workflows and elevate engineering impact. Our mission is to transform how software is built by equipping developers with AI-powered tools that boost productivity, improve code quality, and unlock creativity.

Our product integrates seamlessly with JetBrains IDEs and VS Code, helping developers generate, refactor, and repair code. It includes fast and intelligent AI code completion, and our agents can independently perform tasks like running shell commands or searching the web to assist with coding and debugging. We're especially proud of our proprietary Repo Grokking™ technology, which enables our AI agents to deeply understand your entire codebase, providing the strongest contextual understanding on the market. Zencoder also connects with 20+ popular tools like Jira, Sentry, GitHub, and GitLab, making it the most integrated AI coding solution available.

This is just a small part of what Zencoder is all about. There’s much more to discover — and we’re just getting started.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Engineering Manager/Team Lead to join our engineering team. This is a critical role for an experienced, hands-on team lead with a broad and deep skillset across multiple languages such as Go, Python and Java and strong experience building and scaling distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS or Google Cloud.

As a Team Lead, you will help get the best out of your team by ensuring they are focused, priorities are clear and technical decisions designed, discussed and unblocked as needed. You will ensure your team is following best practices in SDLC and perform regular code reviews to ensure a high bar for quality is being achieved. While the primary focus of this role is ensuring the team's success, you will also be hands on and able to work with the team on resolving issues and implementing features.

This is a unique opportunity to join an early-stage company led by serial entrepreneur Andrew Filev (founder of a unicorn startup), and shape a product that is redefining how software is built.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, guiding design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • Drive the design and implementation of features, ensuring best practices and collaboration with Staff Engineers and Tech Leads in appropriate areas.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend teams, DevOps, and QA to align on requirements, roadmaps, and release plans.
  • Establish best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and incident response and influence within your team across the organization.
  • Hire, onboard and mentor your team into a high performing group.
  • Identify and tackle technical debt, propose refactoring initiatives, and continuously evolve system architecture.
  • Monitor system health in production, lead post-mortems and propose improvements for areas your team owns.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years as a team lead or engineering manager.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Python, Java/Kotlin and Go with working proficiency in at least two.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed system patterns (microservices, event-driven architectures).
  • Demonstrated ability to hire, onboard, and develop engineers; foster career growth through coaching and regular feedback.
  • Experience planning and prioritizing work for a small team, balancing feature delivery with technical maintenance.
  • Excellent communicator—able to translate technical concepts into clear plans and share status with stakeholders.
  • Hands-on mindset: comfortable diving into code for troubleshooting, reviews, and mentoring.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Curiosity, pragmatism, and a willingness to challenge assumptions.

Why Join Zencoder?

  • Impact: Gen AI will change how companies develop software in the next two years. Be at the frontier of that AI work, building a category-leading product in a huge market. You will have an everyday opportunity to innovate.
  • Growth potential: Thrive in a high-growth AI startup combining personal and career growth.
  • High Talent Density: Collaborate daily with our experienced AI engineers, software engineers, and founder, Andrew Filev.
  • Equity: Align your success with ours by participating in our equity plan.
  • Flexibility: We hire globally, prioritizing talent over location. Work where you’re most productive and comfortable.

Zencoder is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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Open to candidates from all countries.

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Worldwide

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At Zencoder, our customers, software developers and engineering teams, often grapple with sprawling codebases, the pressure to ship faster, and the significant time consumed by routine tasks like writing boilerplate code, fixing bugs, creating unit tests, and manually navigating between different tools and contexts. [6, 19] We understand that their valuable brainpower is often diverted from creative problem-solving and innovation. That's why we built Zencoder – not just as another AI coding tool, but as a true AI pair programmer designed to alleviate these challenges. [6, 19] Our AI coding agents are engineered to bring 'zen' back into coding by handling the mundane tasks, allowing developers to unleash their creativity and focus on solving real-world challenges and building what matters. [2, 3] We aim to empower every engineer to be extraordinary by removing the barriers that consume their time and energy. Zencoder distinguishes itself by embedding advanced AI agents that utilize cutting-edge AI pipelines to iteratively refine and repair code, going beyond basic code snippet suggestions. By deeply analyzing entire repositories with our proprietary Repo Grokking™ technology, Zencoder's agents enhance code quality and project alignment, enabling developers to concentrate on innovation. [1, 7, 19]

Our customers need to accelerate their development cycles, improve code quality, and reduce the time-to-market for their software products. [3, 4] Zencoder addresses these needs by automating repetitive coding tasks, streamlining complex workflows, and minimizing errors with AI-driven error correction. [3, 10] We provide a platform that integrates seamlessly into existing development workflows, supporting over 70 programming languages and offering native support for popular IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains, along with integrations for more than 20 DevOps tools such as Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and Sentry. [6, 7, 20] This comprehensive integration ensures that developers can leverage AI assistance throughout their entire DevOps ecosystem without needing to switch to specialized environments. [6, 19] For enterprises, Zencoder offers a solution to ship faster, reduce technical debt by automating code migrations, and enhance creativity by providing customizable AI agents aligned with their organizational needs, all while ensuring enterprise-grade security and privacy (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 & ISO 42001 certified). [1, 18, 31] We are committed to helping organizations ship impactful software products faster and more efficiently by bridging the gap between imagination and implementation.

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Equity Plan

Align your success with ours by participating in our equity plan.

High Talent Density

Collaborate daily with our experienced AI engineers, software engineers, and founder Andrew Filev.

Location Independent

We hire globally, prioritizing talent over location. Work where you are most productive and comfortable.

Growth Potential

Shape your own career path by driving high-impact projects in an AI startup that values ownership and execution.

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