# Engineering Manager at Kira

- Company: Kira
- What the company does: Kira is the first AI platform that delivers personalized education at scale. Use Kira alongside your existing tools, or as your complete AI-powered teaching solution. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.kira-learning.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York or San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $215K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kira/a0d00855-1e3b-47b9-a290-71283a005283
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kira-engineering-manager/

## About the role

Turn company priorities into clear problems, ownership, and honest milestones; find the critical path, surface risk early, test assumptions, and cut scope intelligently. Stay close enough to the architecture, codebase, and production systems to evaluate technical decisions independently; review consequential work and coach engineers on system design, data modeling, debugging, performance, reliability, code quality, and security.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years professional engineering experience, including designing, shipping, and operating consequential production systems
- 2+ years managing mid, senior and lead level software engineers
- Technical depth comparable to a strong Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer, with recent hands-on experience to review substantive changes, investigate production behavior, and write targeted code when useful
- Strong system design and debugging skills across architecture, APIs, data models, distributed systems, performance, and failure modes
- A track record of developing engineers into more independent owners, including senior engineers or technical leads

Tags: Engineering