# Senior Engineering Manager, Optimize

**Company:** [Scribe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scribe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $250k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, Django, Postgres, AWS, LLMs, JavaScript, Python, Full-Stack
**Posted:** 2026-01-14

> Leads full-stack engineering team building scalable AI-driven products for knowledge sharing. Requires 5+ years managing teams, 10+ years technical experience, and expertise in enterprise AI adoption.

## Job Description

## 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

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