# Engineering Manager
**Company:** [Nectarsocial](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nectarsocial)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Salary:** $240K-$320K
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, AI, Kubernetes, JavaScript
**Posted:** 2026-04-14
> Leads engineering team building AI-powered social data products, partners with product/design on direction, drives delivery and technical quality while growing engineers in fast-paced startup.
## Job Description
## 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
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