About Scoutbee
At Scoutbee, we've built the world's most sophisticated AI-powered supplier intelligence platform through rigorous innovation and engineering excellence. Now, as we join forces with Coupa, we're maintaining our distinctive team culture while scaling our technical impact globally. By integrating our cutting-edge AI search algorithms and rich supplier data with Coupa's $8T+ dataset, we're solving complex discovery problems at an unprecedented scale. As a high-velocity team within Coupa, we maintain our technical autonomy and rapid development cycles, all while gaining the resources to push the boundaries of what's possible. If you're passionate about applied AI, machine learning, and building systems that transform how businesses connect worldwide, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead our engineering teams during an exciting period of growth. You'll take our core team of three engineers and grow it into two high-performing teams of five - scaling capability while keeping our culture strong. In this role, you'll guide the team through change, helping us integrate with our parent company while balancing startup energy with new enterprise resources. Your leadership will keep experimentation alive, fuel fast innovation, and drive the impactful products that will carry our momentum into this next chapter.
Your role in our beehive:
- Scale our engineering team from three to ten engineers, organizing them into two effective cross-functional teams
- Foster our culture of experimentation and innovation while implementing appropriate structure and stability
- Lead the migration from Vercel to Kubernetes on AWS without compromising development velocity
- Partner with the Technical Architect and Product Leader to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery
- Identify skill gaps and create development pathways that help team members reach their potential
- Protect the team from administrative overhead while ensuring compliance with new standards
- Drive recruitment efforts to bring in talent that enhances both our capabilities and culture
- Collaborate with parent company leadership to adopt helpful standards while preserving our agility
What you bring to our beehive:
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams, particularly during periods of organizational change
- Experience in a Post-Merger Integration environment background as a software engineer with understanding of TypeScript ecosystems
- Experience leading Ruby engineering teamsTalent for identifying, recruiting, and developing engineering talent
- Ability to maintain team momentum and morale during infrastructure transitions
- Pragmatic approach to Agile methodologies, focusing on outcomes rather than process
- Skill in establishing the right amount of structure to support growth without bureaucracy
- Strong communication skills for clear collaboration with both teams and leadership
- Enthusiasm for balancing innovative prototyping with increasing quality standards
What success looks like:
- Within 3 months: You've established strong relationships with the existing team, developed a hiring strategy, and have begun implementation of new quality practices
- Within 6 months: You've grown the team to 6-8 engineers organized into two functional teams, and successfully initiated the infrastructure transition
- Within 12 months: You've built two complete teams of 5 engineers each, maintained or improved feature delivery velocity, and successfully integrated required parent company standards
- The engineering team demonstrates high engagement and satisfaction despite significant growth and change
- New engineers integrate smoothly and quickly become productive contributors
- Teams maintain the ability to experiment and prototype rapidly while improving overall code quality
- Engineers feel supported in their professional development and see clear growth opportunities
- Our product continues to evolve quickly while meeting the quality standards of our parent company
What's in it for you?
- Opportunity to help shape the world's biggest procurement network
- Work cross-functionally with top talent across GTM, product, and platform teams
- Competitive compensation and wellness budgets
- Remote-flexible, mission-driven culture committed to better global procurement
Worried that you don't quite tick all the boxes? Don't sweat it. For us, personality and willingness to grow and learn are more important than qualifications. We're aware that underestimation of one's own abilities or imposter syndrome can be reasons why someone doesn't apply. We say that not knowing it all can actually be a good thing and that we're more than happy to support – and learn from – our new employees while they find their feet at Scoutbee.
We'd love to hear from you!
At Scoutbee, we're on a mission to connect. Our employees focus on shared experiences so they can have a more accurate view of the world. This enables us to innovate, challenge our own ideas and assumptions, and be ourselves at work. For us, personality and cultural fit are more important than qualifications. If you're worried that you don't quite tick all the boxes, don't be. We say that not knowing it all can actually be a good thing and we're more than happy to support – and learn from – our new colleagues while they find their feet at Scoutbee.
Scoutbee is an equal opportunities employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnic background, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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