Engineering Manager - Stealth Aviation Safety Intelligence Startup

Location: Remote

Department: Portfolio roles

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Lead and grow the development team, balancing hands-on coding and code review with day-to-day team leadership.
• Own engineering process maturity as Scout scales - sprint planning, code review standards, release processes, and documentation.
• Partner closely with the Head of Engineering to build the compliance and process foundation needed for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 over the next 18 months, translating audit and controls requirements into practical engineering workflows.
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, setting technical standards and supporting career growth.
• Drive best practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, and documentation across the team.
• Partner with Product and the Head of Engineering to translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans and sprint execution.
• Help onboard and integrate new engineers as the team grows toward production scale.
• Support incident response and production issues alongside the broader engineering team as needed.

• A hands-on engineering leader who still writes code and reviews PRs, not someone who has moved fully into people management.
• Experienced building or maturing engineering process and compliance readiness - you've been part of driving a team through SOC 2, SOC 1, or ISO 27001, not just working somewhere that had it.
• Comfortable in a lean, fast-moving team without a lot of existing process infrastructure already built.
• A clear communicator who can translate compliance and audit requirements into workflows engineers will actually follow.
• Collaborative - able to work closely with the Head of Engineering, product, and the rest of a small team without a lot of hierarchy.
• Capable of thriving in ambiguous, high-growth startup environments where priorities shift as the product moves from stabilization to scale.

• Meaningful experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, or hands-on Team Lead/Tech Lead, ideally with some individual contributor tenure before moving into leadership.
• Direct experience helping lead a team through SOC 2, SOC 1, or ISO 27001 readiness or certification - this is the strongest signal for this role.
• Strong backend or full-stack background (TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, React) and the ability to remain hands-on.
• Comfortable operating with a small team and building process from scratch rather than working within an already-mature engineering org.
• Early-stage startup experience is a plus but not required.
• No specific industry background required - aviation, safety, or EHS domain experience is a nice to have, but not a factor for this role.
• Agentic AI or LLM engineering experience
• Experience with Databricks

• Lead engineering process and team growth for a platform already live in production with a major airline customer, expanding into additional airline and industry partnerships.
• Build the compliance and process foundation for a company as it moves from stabilization to enterprise scale, with real influence over how the team works.
• Work directly with Scout's Head of Engineering as a key partner in team leadership - not just another report.
• Collaborate with UP.Labs, strategic partners, and investors to drive real impact in aviation and adjacent high-risk industries.
• Earn meaningful equity in a company positioned to transform how high-risk industries prevent catastrophic incidents.
• Remote-friendly. We care about output, not location.

• Risk: We reward our entire team and ecosystem of partners with meaningful equity.
• Technology: We build and launch scalable technology products that form the basis for each venture.
• Industry Focus: We stay focused on the underlying fabric of retail mobility.