Senior Engineering Manager, Optimize

About this role

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Scribe, you’ll lead a high-performing full-stack team building and scaling an AI-driven product that transforms how people document and share knowledge. You’ll shape engineering culture, drive technical excellence, and contribute to company-wide strategy.

Technologies: React, NextJS, Django, Postgres, AWS, large language models (LLMs).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision, leading the team to build scalable, reliable, and elegant solutions.
• Own product outcomes, working closely with product, design, and business leaders to ensure we're solving the most important problems.
• Architect processes that scale, balancing speed and stability as the company grows.
• Drive execution, ensuring the team consistently ships high-impact, high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Raise the bar, fostering a culture of technical excellence, rapid iteration, and continuous improvement.
• Be a force multiplier, hiring, coaching, and mentoring a high-caliber, diverse team of engineers.

You could be a great fit if you have

• 5+ years of experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in fast-growing startups or similarly dynamic environments.
• A strong technical background (10+ years overall experience), with the ability to dive deep when necessary but also operate at a strategic level.
• Experience building AI-driven products that have been widely adopted in an enterprise environment.
• A proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and impact.
• Can thrive in ambiguity—able to drive clarity, alignment, and execution even when navigating the unknown.
• Can lead through others - as the team grows you know how to delegate outcomes to others in a responsible way while still owning the final results.
• Relentlessly curious and always improving—you believe there’s always a better way and challenge the status quo.
• An interest in being customer-facing.

Compensation

$250,000 - $280,000 base + Equity + Benefits