# Engineering Manager, API/Product

**Company:** [Convex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/convex)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** From $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Developer Tools, APIs, Agent Frameworks, Technical Leadership, architecture, Code Review, product sense, ai platforms
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead engineering teams building Convex's developer experience, APIs, agent frameworks, and component systems. Hands-on manager who drives architecture, prioritizes developer needs, grows talent, and maintains a high bar for craft and simplicity in a fast-paced SF-based startup.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Manage and grow the teams spanning our product experience, giving engineers real ownership and holding them to a high bar.
- Develop a strong understanding of what developers and agents need from Convex and use it to make tradeoffs between competing priorities.
- Work closely with our CTO and product lead to align the teams on priorities and make sure we're building the right things at the right time.
- Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.
- Design, build, and maintain the developer-facing surfaces of Convex alongside the teams.
- Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.

## What Excites Us
- Deep experience building and shipping high-quality developer-facing products or tools, ideally at a technical or developer tools company.
- A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.
- Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and agents need from a platform like Convex.
- Strong product sensibility and taste. You care about closing the gap between something that works and something that's a genuine pleasure to use.
- Comfort with prioritization and tradeoffs across a broad surface area, and the judgment to know what matters for customers and what matters for the business.
- Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.
- Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.

## Ideal Characteristics
- Deeply technical: have opinions about technical decisions, can evaluate the work their team is doing, and earn respect through judgment.
- Develop people, not just ship software: give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, help them get better, have hard conversations.
- Do it for the why: ensure the team understands the rationale behind what they're building.
- Obsessed with craft: sweat the details, hold a high bar for how things feel to build with.
- Value simplicity and pragmatism: bias toward doing fewer things better, push back on unnecessary complexity.
- Bring energy to the room: be constructive, positive, and excited.
- Worthy of trust: honest, go to bat for the team, do the right thing.

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