Engineering Manager
Company Overview
Maze is the user research platform that helps companies build the right products faster by making user insights available at the speed of product development.In most companies, research demand far exceeds supply. Time, cost, and lack of access to expertise hold teams back. In today’s AI-powered world, anyone can build a product fast. The real challenge? Deeply understanding user needs and building the right product. That’s where Maze comes in.We believe companies shouldn’t have to choose between building fast and building right. Maze makes research accessible, intuitive, and fast so product teams can put user insights at the center of every decision.Our platform enables researchers, designers, and product managers to quickly recruit participants, run studies autonomously, and surface insights that actually drive product decisions. Our AI capabilities automate the busywork and add depth and direction to the insights themselves.That’s why Maze was recently named the #1 user research platform in UX Tools’ Design Tools Survey—and why we’re scaling fast across industries like B2B SaaS, e-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail, and Automotive, supporting world class customers such as Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, Anthropic & more.Maze is a Series B company backed by top-tier investors (Felicis, Emergence & Amplify). We operate a global remote workforce driven by our core values.
Maze empowers researchers to be change makers, turning research into a center of influence and customer insights into enduring competitive advantage. By bringing recruiting, testing, and analysis together, Maze helps organizations move from intuition to evidence, faster. From researchers to designers and PMs, anyone can run studies that answer any question and drive better decisions at any altitude. Equipped with Maze’s research-grade AI, teams can focus on what matters most: understanding people, uncovering insights, and shaping change with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead high-performing teams and help engineers do their best work.
- Partner with product managers and designers to build and deliver value incrementally.
- Work with peers in engineering leadership to shape technical strategy and execution.
- Define and evolve team structures, responsibilities, and growth paths.
- Bring a thoughtful, people-first approach to performance, feedback, and development conversations.
- Help Maze scale its engineering organization with hiring, onboarding, and culture-building.
- Leading and scaling one or more cross-functional product engineering teams at Maze.
- Driving delivery across complex and evolving product surfaces, ensuring quality, speed, and team health.
- Creating an environment of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
- Partnering closely with Product and Design to shape our product direction and execute against it.
- Establishing engineering practices and processes that scale across our organization.
- Supporting and coaching engineers in their growth and performance.
- Bringing calm, clarity, and structure to ambiguous challenges in a fast-moving environment.
Requirements / Qualifications
- You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, and 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- You care about product, not just the code: shaping solutions that serve real users.
- You have a track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale.
- You have driven technical delivery for products or platforms that must perform reliably and efficiently as the user base and data volume grows.
- You have worked with teams to take ownership of product and platform development end-to-end — from front-end to back-end, including system design and debugging — at a scale that supports business growth and user demands.
- You step in during challenging technical situations or crises, providing guidance and making quick, informed decisions.
- You have worked in remote, high-growth environments.
- You are comfortable managing engineers across time zones and locations.
- You enjoy coaching, mentoring, and unlocking people’s potential.
- You balance empathy with directness in performance and development conversations.
- You have strong communication skills, especially in writing and remote collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications
- You’ve worked with modern JavaScript (Node.js/React/TypeScript) ecosystems.
- You’ve led teams building research, data, or AI-powered tools.
- You bring experience managing multiple teams or leading engineering leads.
Location
European Union, Remote: True
Salary & Benefits
At Maze, we are dedicated to building an equitable, inclusive, and authentic workspace. Unique and diverse perspectives are welcomed, and continuous growth is encouraged. We believe that people are more than their resumes, so if your past experience looks different than the criteria listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We appreciate and celebrate non-traditional life routes and encourage you to apply should you connect with a job description or the Maze culture.Maze values transparency and it enables us to approach compensation equitably across the world. We are informed by data and regularly check our salary ranges (either United States or Rest of World) against other venture backed companies. Additionally, we are proud of our holistic and generous benefits offerings, included in every compensation package.Your salary is dependent upon many factors, including years of experience, expertise, etc. During your first interview, you can expect to have an open conversation with your recruiter regarding your compensation expectations.
- Early-stage startup: You will join an early-stage startup with less than 150 team members. This means you'll have the unique opportunity to directly impact success and help shape the future of Maze.
- Market disruption: We believe that the way companies build products is fundamentally broken and the user research market is ripe for disruption. For too long, companies have been forced to choose between rapid development without user insights or investing months into research before bringing products to market. But there's finally a groundswell building around a path forward that eliminates this compromise - and Maze is leading the charge.
- Product-market Fit: Maze is used by 100,000+ brands across 4,000 companies, from SMB to enterprises, and in the last fiscal year, we saw 6.5M questions answered, supporting 25K decisions
- Health insurance with international coverage, vision, and dental: 100% of the team member premium paid For some locations, coverage options vary, please see our benefits pages for more information
- Free access to proper mental health care, unlimited virtual therapy sessions (with a human) and 24/7 access to resources
- Life and Disability Insurance, 100% of the team member premium paid
- Flexible time off
- Meaningful equity
- Company retreats, fully paid for by Maze
- New MacBook (laptop), paid for by Maze
- Paid Family leave: 16 weeks for birth or adoptive parents
- $500/month to be used for dependent health insurance coverage If you don't have dependents to add to your plan, you will still get access to this money to be used at your discretion to get the benefits that matter to you with our flexible a-maze-ing benefits - gym memberships, co-working spaces, food, travel, whatever!
- $1,500 remote work setup fund to ensure you can set up a productive work space
- Flexible work schedule where you manage your own working hours
- Monthly Bonus.ly points that are awarded to others to recognize teamwork, dedication and helpfulness - points can be cashed out for gift cards and more
- Virtual social engagements randomly throughout the year
- SWAG, we have some really cool swag
- Open, transparent culture that includes virtual: coffee chats, bi-weekly all-hands meetings, and more
- Check out all of our a-maze-ing benefits here.
Application Process
We understand you might be excited about the job you’re applying for, we are excited you are interested! However, please refrain from reaching out to our current team members on LinkedIn for referrals. Our policy is that referrals can only be provided by team members who personally know the candidate. With the high volume of interest in our roles, contacting our team members who are not involved in recruitment can be overwhelming. Additionally, please avoid submitting support tickets regarding your application, as our support team is not involved in the hiring process. Rest assured, our recruitment team is diligently reviewing all applications and will reach out directly if there is a match.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Maze, we are dedicated to building an equitable, inclusive, and authentic workspace. Unique and diverse perspectives are welcomed, and continuous growth is encouraged. We believe that people are more than their resumes, so if your past experience looks different than the criteria listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We appreciate and celebrate non-traditional life routes and encourage you to apply should you connect with a job description or the Maze culture.
