[Hiring] Senior Manager or Director, Engineering @Stratus

Role Description

We're evaluating this role at both the Senior Engineering Manager and Director of Engineering level, depending on the candidate's experience and readiness. The scope and core responsibilities described below are the same either way — what differs is title, seniority expectations, and compensation, which will be discussed directly during the interview process. For someone joining as Senior Engineering Manager, there is a path to Director as they grow into the full scope of the role.

The growth is proven. Stratus has built a platform customers depend on and a market that is accelerating. The next chapter is scale and compounding value: more customers, deeper workflows, and an AI layer that gives MEP fabrication shops capabilities they could not build on their own.

You will be among the first engineering leaders to put a genuine AI agent into a fabrication workflow that a real shop floor runs on. That has not been done at scale. This role is where it gets built. And you will build it while keeping the core product shipping to a rapidly growing customer base.

You will report to the CTO, peer with Directors and Senior Directors across engineering, and partner day to day with the Head of Product and GTM leadership. This role is fully remote. We meet quarterly as a leadership team and make regular visits to customer shop floors. You will know what your software looks like when it is running in a real fabrication environment.

• Lead product focused teams delivering against the Stratus roadmap, bringing engineering and AI capability together to ship what customers depend on.
• We are early in this build and you will shape how it goes.
• This is a lean, senior-IC-adjacent role: the person in this seat is expected to be the anchor — consistently available during core working hours, with occasional availability for production escalations outside business hours (realistically once a month or less, not frequent late nights).
• MEP industry experience is a strong plus.

Qualifications

• AI forward and pragmatic engineering.
• Technical depth in cloud native SaaS architecture with Azure experience preferred.
• 10 or more years in software engineering, ideally including experience building and shipping AI-enabled products.
• Delivery discipline with real planning, tracking, and follow-through.
• Customer and product orientation.
• Leadership experience, including strong communication skills.
• Domain experience in MEP, fabrication, or construction technology is a strong plus.

Requirements

• Has led a team shipping AI-enabled product features that customers depend on in production.
• Comfortable in C# or .NET; MongoDB or document database experience is a plus.
• Has shipped in an environment where the customer base was growing fast enough that a bad release had real consequences.
• Has taken on a team, nurtured it to higher impact, and done it without losing what was already working.
• Can sit in a customer conversation, find the real problem beneath the stated request, and carry that signal back to the teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive health benefits plan.
• Matching 401k contributions.
• 20 days annual PTO.
• Primarily remote work with occasional annual team onsites.