Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI): Leading a small team focused on the Studio product, which empowers homeowners to visualize spaces using generative AI, with an accent on AI-native and agentic development workflows. Focus on integrating AI into the software development lifecycle and maintaining high engineering standards.

Location: This is a remote friendly position

Salary: $149,000 to $201,000

Company

Block is a renovation platform transforming the $500 billion renovation industry.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of 4–6 engineers through mentorship and feedback.
• Contribute directly to the codebase, owning product and platform work.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Leadership to shape squad goals and deliver against the roadmap.
• Participate in architectural decisions, technical design discussions, and code reviews.
• Integrate AI-native, agentic development workflows into how the team plans, builds, and ships software.
• Support execution by managing team capacity, prioritization, and delivery.

Requirements

• 2+ years in an engineering leadership or senior mentorship role, with 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability to balance people leadership with sustained technical contribution.
• Strong product instincts and comfort working across engineering, product, and design.
• High openness to experimentation with AI-driven and agentic development tools.
• Experience building and scaling modern web applications across front-end and back-end systems.
• Comfort leading and collaborating with a fully remote or distributed team.
• Proficiency with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and API-driven architectures.

Nice to have

• Experience working on AI-powered products or integrating LLMs, workflows, or chains into production systems.
• Familiarity with our current stack (NextJS, TypeScript, React, Feathers, NodeJS).

Culture & Benefits

• Earn equity in an early-stage high-growth company.
• Subsidized health insurance, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible work environment, with a hybrid schedule and “work from anywhere” time.
• PTO and company holidays.
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution.
• Budgeted learning and development stipend.