Senior Engineering Manager
Leads and scales engineering teams responsible for high-throughput social-data systems, real-time AI agents, analytics, and automation. The role combines people management, product execution, architecture oversight, delivery excellence, hiring, and cross-functional collaboration.
About the job
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & People Management
- Directly manage, mentor, and grow Software Engineers and Tech Leads.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, support career progression, and foster an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
Product & Strategic Execution
- Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and engineering leadership to translate product roadmaps into executable engineering plans.
- Manage capacity and ensure predictable project delivery.
Technical Quality & Architecture
- Oversee technical design and code quality.
- Guide architectural trade-off decisions for high-volume, real-time data systems and AI agentic workflows.
Delivery Excellence & Process
- Establish and refine agile practices, sprint planning, and operational processes.
- Track delivery velocity, system reliability, and code quality metrics to improve team performance.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work with Customer Success and Sales to understand customer pain points and ensure technical initiatives deliver business value.
Hiring & Team Building
- Recruit, interview, and onboard engineering talent.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Track record of recruiting, onboarding, and developing high-performing engineers and tech leads.
- Ability to align technical execution with product goals, break down complex requirements into milestones, and manage team bandwidth.
- Solid software development background for evaluating architecture, guiding technical decisions, and maintaining high engineering standards.
- Experience improving delivery cadences, code review practices, and incident response processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience managing teams in B2B SaaS, social data platforms, developer tools, or marketing technology.
- Familiarity with AI-powered systems, real-time analytics platforms, or agentic frameworks.
- Familiarity with AWS, TypeScript, React, Postgres, and ClickHouse.
- Experience overseeing teams working across web and native mobile applications.
Compensation
- Annual salary: $250000-$300000.
Skills
AWS, TypeScript, React, Postgres, ClickHouse, Real-Time Analytics, AI Agents, Agile, Code Review, Incident Response
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