# Tech Lead Manager

**Company:** [Nectarsocial](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nectarsocial)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, React Native, LLMs, AI Agents, CI/CD, System Architecture, Full-Stack Development, Monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Leads technical vision and hands-on execution for core engineering teams building real-time AI and social-commerce products. The role combines architecture, product partnership, coding, mentorship, and formal management, requiring 8+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years managing engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define the technical roadmap, system design, and architectural standards for the product domain.
- Write production code, conduct code reviews, resolve complex technical bottlenecks, and own critical-path architecture.
- Partner with Product and Design to evaluate feasibility, scope features, refine requirements, and guide product direction.
- Coach and mentor engineers through pair programming, architecture reviews, and software-craftsmanship practices.
- Participate in customer calls to understand product usage, system performance, and UX gaps.
- Improve RFC processes, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, system monitoring, and post-mortem resolution.
- Conduct technical interviews and evaluate engineering talent.
- Manage a team of 2–5 through 1:1s, performance reviews, and career-growth planning.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of total software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of formal people-management experience with direct reports on a high-performing engineering team.
- Strong architectural intuition and hands-on full-stack proficiency.
- Product acumen and experience shaping technical direction based on customer impact.
- Experience collaborating with Product Managers and Product Designers in fast-paced startup environments.
- Ability to operate with ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Hands-on experience or deep technical interest in LLMs, AI agents, and modern AI workflows.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Early- or growth-stage startup experience.
- Experience architecting, deploying, or operating AI-powered or agentic platforms at scale.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, or Turbopuffer.
- Technical leadership for mobile products, ideally with React Native.

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