Location: Remote, US-only

Company: Atomic Maps

The Role

Leadership and Culture

• Set and enforce a high standard for technical quality 

• Keep a multidisciplinary team coordinated, aligned and moving in the same direction 

• Build a culture of ownership and accountability across disciplines

• Translate strategic company direction into clear engineering priorities

Team and Delivery 

• Own team accountability, prioritization, and performance management across back end, front end, data engineering, and infrastructure

• Own engineering capacity and prioritization against the execution queue 

• Set engineering standards across disciplines and remove blockers for developers

• Own engineering hiring: candidate evaluation, technical interviews, and team scaling decisions

• Partner with the team senior architect on platform architecture, technical standards, and cross-cutting system design. 

• Guide release management in partnership with product team

• Resolve capacity constraints and supply/demand imbalances through reprioritization and resourcing decisions, escalating to the Managing Directors only when a tradeoff affects a company-level commitment

Business and Market Judgment

• Provide strategic technical insight on customer commitments and market challenges

• Ability to interact with customers and translate technical aspects into clear business language

• Maintain working knowledge of Atomic’s products (Atomic Flow, Lens, Mind) alongside competition 

• Ability to interact with customers and translate technical aspects into clear business language

AI Direction

• Ensure AI tools are effectively incorporated across the engineering workflow: development, code review, testing, spec production, and data operations

• Actively identify and pursue opportunities to build more AI capability into engineering and scalable delivery work

• Set expectations and AI development standards to ensure high quality

• Evaluate new tools and approaches the team brings forward, and make the call on adoption

Qualifications

Required

• Experience managing a multidisciplinary engineering team of 3 or more, spanning multiple disciplines

• A track record of building accountable, high-performing engineering teams, not just running process

• Technical depth sufficient to evaluate architecture tradeoffs and resourcing decisions on a distributed, cloud-native data platform

• Demonstrated ability to connect business and market context to technical prioritization, and to communicate that connection to a technical team

• Experience owning delivery against customer-facing commitments in a B2B or enterprise SaaS environment

• Strong technical fluency with AI tools and agentic/LLM-based systems

• Track record of driving AI tool adoption within an engineering team to increase throughput or capacity, not just experimenting with tools individually

Preferred

• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, or GIS-adjacent platforms

• Experience with STAC, cloud-native geospatial formats (COG, COPC, GeoParquet), or comparable metadata-first architectures

• Experience managing a remote team that includes contractors alongside full-time employees

Atomic Maps is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic.