# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [AfterQuery](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/afterquery)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $300k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, System Design, Code Review, Team Leadership, Mentorship, Scalable Systems, Production Deployment, Hiring
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> Lead and mentor 5-15 engineers while staying hands-on building scalable data and evaluation systems for frontier AI models. Own execution end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Manage a small group of engineers and own their output end-to-end
- Write code, review systems, and contribute directly to critical builds
- Drive projects forward quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers to raise the overall team bar
- Ensure systems are scalable, clean, and reusable
- Work closely with ops, domain experts, and customers

## Requirements
- Strong background as a senior or staff-level engineer
- Experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams (5–15 engineers)
- Proven ability to ship production systems in fast-paced environments
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing contexts
- Desire to remain hands-on with code and system design

## Not a Fit
- You don’t want to code anymore
- You need a lot of process or structure
- You’ve been far from the code for a while

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