Sched, a $5M ARR event management platform, is looking to evolve its engineering organization to blend strong technical leadership with modern, AI-assisted development practices to increase engineering throughput and product reliability without linearly increasing headcount.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineers in a SaaS environment
- 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
- Strong technical foundation in AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Replit, etc.)
- Experience with modern development practices and tools
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
- Improve the health of our legacy PHP system through structured cleanup and documentation
- Use AI tools for code explanations, prototypes, tests, and refactors
Other
- Lead and coach a small engineering team with clear expectations
- Build a culture of accountability, learning, and ownership
- Hire, retain, and develop strong talent
- 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
