# Founding Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Giga](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/giga)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $210k – $500k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Next.js, Modal
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Lead engineering team, hire for Toronto site, drive technical strategy and architecture for AI agent platform. Requires 8+ years experience, hands-on coding, system design expertise, and scaling large systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects and make architectural decisions affecting the entire platform.
- Hire and lead an elite engineering team at the Toronto site.
- Drive technical initiatives including system architecture design, solving hard technical problems, technical strategy, and engineering quality standards.
- Mentor engineers and work across team boundaries.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience with track record of leading complex projects.
- Experience hiring teams from scratch.
- Strong opinions on system design with ability to articulate tradeoffs.
- Ability to turn vague problems into clear technical approaches.
- Write excellent code and maintain high standards.
- Comfortable with hard problems, uncertainty, and hands-on coding.
- Experience building scalable systems.

## Tech Stack
**Backend:** Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js)
**Infrastructure:** AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres
**Frontend:** TypeScript, Next.js

## Perks & Benefits
- Generous salary and equity
- Commuter and meal benefits
- Country-specific medical, dental, and vision coverage

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