Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sched is a profitable event management platform evolving its engineering organization with a focus on AI-assisted development practices. The Engineering Manager will lead a small team to modernize a legacy system, improve workflows, and increase engineering throughput.
Responsibilities
• Assess the current PHP codebase and infrastructure
• Identify legacy areas, high-risk sections, and modernization priorities
• Document technical debt in a way the business can act on
• Define where AI tools can realistically speed up documentation, refactoring, and testing
• Establish a predictable development workflow that blends human judgment + AI output
• Build a modernization plan we can execute in phases alongside normal product work
• Lead and coach a small engineering team with clear expectations
• Help engineers adopt and use AI tools effectively
• Build a culture of accountability, learning, and ownership
• Hire, retain, and develop strong talent
• Improve the health of our legacy PHP system through structured cleanup and documentation
• Reduce technical debt in a prioritized, business-aligned manner
• Use AI tools for code explanations, prototypes, tests, and refactors
• Work with Product to scope work realistically and unblock roadmap items
• Strengthen logs, monitoring, and alerting
• Partner with Business Operations to ensure secure use of AI tools
• Reduce incident frequency and improve time-to-resolution
• Maintain strong on-call and incident management practices
• Work closely with Product to align on scope, sequencing, and priorities
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success to understand customer needs and unblock revenue
• Plan around Schedmin and other internal tools so product work, back office workflows, and data all stay in sync
• Identify where automation or lightweight middleware solves problems faster than core engineering
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to business partners
Skills
• Experience leading engineers in a SaaS environment (1–3 years is great if your IC background is strong)
• Strong technical foundation in PHP or similar web stacks
• Experience modernizing or refactoring legacy systems
• Comfortable jumping into code when needed
• Deeply integrates AI into daily engineering workflows so it's a default part of how you design, code, review, and communicate
• Clear, proactive, and direct communicator who surfaces risks early, thinks upstream, and translates impact for internal and external users
• Strong prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoff skills; can explain what moves now versus later and why
• Bias toward action and iterative improvement
Company Overview
• Sched powers thousands of events with scheduling software, mobile applications, and personal agenda builders. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://sched.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• SCHED has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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