Engineering Manager

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, providing regular feedback, career development, and mentorship
• Partner closely with product and design to define what gets built, not just how it gets built. Bring your own perspective on user problems, scope, and sequencing
• Sit in customer calls regularly to build direct intuition for how social and brand teams work and where the product falls short
• Own planning and delivery for your team's product area, balancing speed, quality, and impact
• Drive technical quality across your team's systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and sound architecture decisions
• Contribute to product strategy by identifying patterns across customer feedback, usage data, and engineering insight that product alone might miss
• Establish and refine engineering processes including sprint planning, on-call, incident response, and operational excellence
• Contribute to hiring by sourcing, interviewing, and closing strong engineering talent

What We're Looking For

• Experience managing a team of software engineers, with a track record of developing talent and building high-performing teams
• Strong product instincts. You form opinions about what should get built, push back on specs that don't make sense, and think in terms of customer outcomes, not just tickets
• Technical background strong enough to engage in architecture discussions, review designs, and make sound tradeoffs
• Experience working closely with product and design, ideally in environments where the lines between functions were blurry
• A bias toward action and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Clear, direct communication style and the ability to build trust across functions
• Interest in how AI is changing both the products we build and the way engineering teams work

Bonus Points

• Experience in B2B SaaS, social, commerce, or marketing technology where you developed deep domain understanding
• Previous experience in a product engineering culture where EMs were expected to contribute to product direction
• Familiarity with our stack: React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer
• Previous experience at an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup where you helped define engineering culture
• Experience building or managing teams that ship AI-powered product experiences

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and early equity
• Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
• Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
• Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
• Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
• A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure