Role OverviewLead a team of engineers building the company's AI context platform, driving technical strategy, and contributing directly to engineering work and technical decisions.
What You Will Do
Lead & Develop a High-Caliber Engineering Team, Drive Technical Strategy & Stay Hands-On, Build & Scale AI-Native Products, Scale the Engineering Organization & Cross-Functional Strategy.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Ideal candidate has 6+ years of software engineering experience, at least 2 years of formal engineering management experience, and experience building external, customer-facing products.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- At least 2 years of formal engineering management experience
- Experience as an Engineering Manager, Engineering Lead, Tech Lead Manager, or equivalent
- Experience managing approximately 3–15 individual contributor engineers
- Experience leading engineers through significant product or organizational growth
- Experience working in a high-growth startup environment, ideally within the last three years
- Strong track record of owning meaningful technical and organizational outcomes
- Experience building external, customer-facing products
- Strong product instincts and strategic thinking
- Strong full-stack software engineering background with a clear product-engineering orientation
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience with React is preferred
- Experience with Postgres is preferred
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- Experience reviewing technical designs and making architectural decisions
- Current or recent hands-on engineering contribution
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and production systems
- Comfortable working across the product stack rather than being narrowly specialized in infrastructure, mobile, or analytics
- Hands-on experience building or working on an agentic or AI-native product within the last 2–3 years is required
- Experience building production AI-powered products rather than simply using AI development tools
- Strong understanding of AI-native product development and user-facing AI workflows
- Experience with agentic systems, AI context, retrieval, or AI-powered workflows is highly valued
- Experience with Python is a plus
- Strong product instincts and ability to translate emerging AI capabilities into useful customer-facing products
- Ability to connect technical decisions to customer adoption and product outcomes
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills
- Able to set a high engineering bar while empowering engineers to operate independently
- Strong product and strategic judgment
- Comfortable managing and developing engineers across different levels
- Strong hiring and team-building instincts
- Excellent cross-functional communication
- Comfortable working closely with product, design, and senior engineering leadership
- High ownership and accountability
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment
- Able to balance technical depth, people leadership, and product execution
Benefits
- Base salary $221,000 – $295,000
- Competitive equity package
- Full-time position
- Hybrid work model with 2 days per week in-office
- Office locations in San Francisco or New York City
- Opportunity to lead a core engineering pillar focused on AI context and agentic systems
- Significant technical and organizational ownership
- Opportunity to work on an evolving AI-native platform with a large active user base
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