Engineering Manager, Desktop

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About the Role

You will lead the Desktop team at [hidden], owning the product and engineering experience that millions of developers rely on every day. This team owns the UI, core features, and client-side architecture of the [hidden] desktop application, working across product, design, infrastructure, and platforms to deliver a fast, stable, and seamless experience.

This is a highly cross-functional role. The Desktop team sits at the center of many of [hidden]’s most important product investments, especially the cross-cutting features that define how humans and agents work together across environments like local, worktrees, remote ssh, and cloud. When developers open [hidden], they expect it to feel instant, reliable, and deeply integrated into their workflow. Your team makes that possible.

You’ll lead a team responsible not just for shipping individual features, but for shaping how these systems come together into a coherent app experience. This role is ideal for someone who cares deeply about product quality, technical architecture, developer experience, and leading teams through ambitious, fast-moving roadmaps.

What you’ll do

• Own the execution and quality of the [hidden] desktop client across UI, features, and architecture

• Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver cross-cutting user experiences spanning agents and core app workflows.

• Set a high bar for engineering excellence, performance, reliability, and maintainability in a product used daily by millions of developers.

• Supporting a team shipping features like async subagents, agent multitasking, a better plan mode, improved browser or computer use, and a strong local<>cloud story.

• Hire and growing the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top fullstack talent.

You may be a fit if

• You have led engineering teams building high-performance web or desktop apps.

• Strong product instincts and a track record of shipping polished, user-facing software.

• Experience balancing execution speed with long-term technical quality

• Strong partnership skills across engineering, product, design, and infrastructure/platform teams.

• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and developer experience, and have an eye for elegant systems design.

• You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy getting into the details—you can review a PR, debug a memory leak, or evaluate an architectural proposal with equal confidence.

• You thrive in environments that are fast-moving, collaborative, and product-focused.

• You make good calls in the gray area: weighing stability, performance, velocity, and user experience when there isn't a single "right" answer.

• You're excited to push the limits of what's possible in AI-driven developer tools.

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 interviews. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.