[Hiring] Engineering Engagement Lead @Space Inch

Role Description

Space Inch is looking for an Engineering Engagement Lead to look after our engineers within a long-standing partnership with one of the largest investment managers in the U.S, who is a S&P 500 company. Our engineers work embedded in the client’s teams, and the client directs their day-to-day work. Your job is everything around that work:

• Making sure each engineer meets Space Inch’s standards.
• Understanding what they’re building and why it matters to the client’s business.
• Helping them grow.
• Keeping communication clear between our people and the client.

This is a people, communication, and account role, which means that you won’t assign tasks, run sprints, or make architecture decisions. An engineering background is a preference, but it’s not a disqualifying criteria. What really matters is an engineer’s mindset: you can sit down with an engineer or a client’s engineering manager, understand what’s being built, and have a real conversation about it.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering and people leadership, engagement or account management, or technical project/product management in an agency, consultancy, nearshore, or client-embedded environment; preferably coming from an engineering background, but not a must.
• An engineer’s mindset: you understand modern software development (SDLC, common architectures and stacks) well enough to follow what engineers are building, hold your own with client engineering and product managers, and notice when something is off.
• Real curiosity about the client’s business: you invest the time to learn the domain, why each application matters, and what workflow it replaces, so client stakeholders see you as someone who adds value.
• A clear system for evaluating people: you can explain how you know someone is doing a great job, using standards, evidence, and feedback from several sources, and how you turn that into specific, actionable coaching.
• Exceptional communicator and mediator who handles sensitive topics (compensation, retention, disengagement, underperformance) directly and with care, across written, async, live, and cross-cultural communication.
• Proven track record of growing engineers: you’ve guided engineers along their career paths, from junior to senior and from individual contributor toward leadership, built development plans that led to real promotions, and can point to people who grew under your leadership.
• Experience managing senior client stakeholders: gathering honest feedback, managing expectations, and showing the value our people bring.
• Practical fluency with AI as a working tool: you can assess whether engineers are using AI well against defined practices and push them to improve.
• Experience leading distributed or remote people, including those who work mostly on their own.

Requirements

• Regularly assess every engineer and project against Space Inch’s project success standards, and whether we’re meeting both the client’s needs and our team members’ needs.
• Work with the client’s engineering and product managers to gather feedback on each engineer, including quality of work, taking into account how each client team operates.
• Run regular 1:1s, give candid feedback, and build development plans that help engineers level up.
• Keep engineers engaged and connected to Space Inch, especially those working alone on client projects.
• Act as Space Inch’s senior point of contact with the client on how our people are doing; manage expectations and help tell the story of the impact of our work.
• Help engineers navigate shifting priorities, unclear ownership, and unrealistic timelines, and bridge communication gaps between our team and the client.
• Check that engineers follow the AI practices we define, help them improve, and share what works across the team.

Benefits

• Monthly salary: 6,500.00–9,000.00 USD for a full-time B2B collaboration, based on experience and skills.
• Remote-first setup.
• Health & Wellbeing: PTO + 100% paid sick leave + annual health checkup budget.
• Wellness subsidy.
• An education budget specifically designed to fuel your learning and help you expand your knowledge base.

Company Description

Space Inch is committed to providing an environment of equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination. Space Inch believes in treating all employees and applicants with respect and dignity, fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.