Engineering Manager

ABOUT MIDJOURNEY

Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. The team is strikingly small relative to our community, which means the work you lead here reaches millions of people within days, and you will have more say over the product than at any Big Tech firm.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Midjourney started on Discord and is now a web-first product that millions of people use every day. The web team builds all of it: the create experience, profiles, moodboards, sharing, subscriptions, the surfaces where the community lives. We're hiring an Engineering Manager to own that team and what it ships.

Ownership here means the whole thing. You are accountable for the delivery, quality, and performance of the web product, and for the health of the team building it. You set technical direction with the engineers, amplify what each of them can own, and make the calls when priorities collide. You work with design and product from the first sketch, and with backend and infra so the seams hold as the product changes underneath you, which it does constantly.

The role stays technical and it is AI-native. Agents write a large share of our code, and we expect the same leverage in how you manage: use AI tools to handle the routine parts of the job so your time goes to hiring, judgement calls, and the hardest problems. Some weeks that means working with design and product to spec and sequence projects. Other weeks it means being in the codebase yourself, with agents alongside: reviewing implementations, prototyping, unblocking a stuck project. The team is small and senior. It doesn't need process for its own sake; it needs someone who raises the bar on what ships and clears the way to ship it.

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