# Engineering Director, Agent Context

**Company:** [Hex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hex)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $221k – $349k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Apollo, Redux, Express, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Helm, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> Leads engineering teams building Hex's AI context platform, driving strategy, managing managers and ICs, recruiting talent, and occasionally coding. Requires 5+ years leading AI/data-intensive teams with deep technical expertise in modern web stacks.

## Job Description

## 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.

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