Engineering Manager, Kai

About Kandji

Kandji is the Apple device management and security platform that empowers secure and productive global work. With Kandji, Apple devices transform themselves into enterprise-ready endpoints, with all the right apps, settings, and security systems in place. Through advanced automation and thoughtful experiences, we’re bringing much-needed harmony to the way IT, InfoSec, and Apple device users work today and tomorrow.

Some of the smartest money in tech has partnered with Kandji to realize our vision, including Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, First Round Capital, and Okta Ventures. In July 2024, Kandji raised $100 million in capital from General Catalyst, bringing Kandji’s valuation to $850 Million.

Since Kandji’s Series C in 2021, the company has seen a 600% increase in annual recurring revenue, and its customer base has grown nearly 4X across 40 industries. Notable customers include Allbirds, Canva, and Notion, and the company has partnerships with such industry giants as ServiceNow, AWS, and Okta.

Kandji was also named to Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startup List 2023 and recognized as a top venture-backed startup with the potential to reach unicorn status.

The Opportunity

As an engineering manager at Kandji, you will design and build the core services that power our web application, while maintaining security and scalability. You will work alongside our macOS and Infrastructure engineers to bring world class products to market.

We are looking for an engineering manager with experience empowering teams to ship large-scale, mission-critical enterprise software.

How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day:

• Experience leading teams that build reporting, analytics, or data visualization features, with a strong understanding of scalable data systems and event-driven architectures.
• Strong frontend and UI expertise, ensuring interactive, performant experiences for data-heavy applications.
• Ability to make complex data insights user-friendly, working closely with product and design to deliver actionable reporting.
• Familiarity with analytics frameworks, eventing systems, and telemetry collection to power meaningful user interactions.
• Skilled at cross-team collaboration, integrating insights and interactions seamlessly across multiple services and data sources.
• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship high-quality code and tackle hard engineering problems.
• Understand and report on progress and pacing of initiatives.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, inclusivity, innovation, learning, respect, and transparency while holding a high bar for craftsmanship.
• Contribute to and/or execute on the organization’s vision and standards around security, quality, observability, and clean code.
• Share your knowledge with team members by reviewing code, collaborating on design documents, giving technical talks, formal mentorship, and JIT feedback.
• Collaborate closely with the Design and Product teams to ensure that your team has a well-defined roadmap.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, code quality, automated testing, or other engineering best practices.
• Facilitate the squad’s agile meetings by taking on the scrum master role.
  
  
  

Minimum qualifications:

• 7 years of experience designing, building and deploying scalable frontend and backend applications leveraging modern languages and frameworks (Python, Django, FastAPI and React preferred)
• 2 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience driving the design and implementation of large-scale initiatives for SaaS products
• Experience working in high growth startup environments and comfortable balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies/mindset and experience facilitating agile ceremonies
• Thrives in an environment with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Strong communication skills with a customer focus
• Quality first mindset
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  
  
  

Required to work on-site 5x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables)

Nice to haves:

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
  
  
  

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• 100% individual and dependent medical dental vision coverage
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• 20 days PTO
• Kandji Wellness Week the first week in July
• Equity for full-time employees
• Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Paid Family and Medical Leave
• Modern Health - Mental Health Benefits - Individual and Dependents
• Fertility Benefits
• Working Advantage Employee Discounts
• Free onsite fitness center
• Free parking
• Lunch 5 days/week
• Exciting opportunities for career growth
• An outstanding, inclusive culture
  
  
  

We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.

At Kandji we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.

Kandji is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.