Engineering Director, Agent Context

What you will do

• Lead an organization of multiple teams working on Hex’s context platform
• Serve as people manager for line-level engineering managers, tech leads, and senior ICs, setting a high bar and empowering them to do their best work
• Recruit exceptional engineering talent, growing to a team of at least 15 software engineers
• Drive technical strategy, review designs, and occasionally get hands on to move the needle

About You

• 5+ years experience leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms
• Exceptional ability to identify and design the right technical abstractions to accelerate an ambitious and evolving product vision
• Deep curiosity for, and strong intuition about, state-of-the-art AI agent behavior and context systems
• Proven track record as a people manager, with experience (or clear potential) managing managers and scaling high-performing teams
• Brings a clear playbook for building high-performing teams: setting clear technical standards, hiring and developing strong talent, and creating environments where extraordinary engineers can do their best work
• Deeply technical leader who is not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get hands on when necessary

Our stack

Our product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. Our frontend is built with Typescript and React, using a combination of Apollo GraphQL and Redux for managing application state and data. On the backend, we also use Typescript to power an Express/Apollo GraphQL server that interacts with Postgres, Redis, and Kubernetes to manage our database and Python kernels. Our backend is tightly integrated with our infrastructure and CI/CD, where we use a combination of Terraform, Helm, and AWS to deploy and maintain our stack.