Senior Engineering Manager, Optimize

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision, leading the team to build scalable, reliable, and elegant solutions.
• Own product outcomes, working closely with product, design, and business leaders to ensure we're solving the most important problems.
• Architect processes that scale, balancing speed and stability as the company grows.
• Drive execution, ensuring the team consistently ships high-impact, high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Raise the bar, fostering a culture of technical excellence, rapid iteration, and continuous improvement.
• Be a force multiplier, hiring, coaching, and mentoring a high-caliber, diverse team of engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in fast-growing startups or similarly dynamic environments.
• A strong technical background (10+ years overall experience), with the ability to dive deep when necessary but also operate at a strategic level.
• Experience building AI-driven products that have been widely adopted in an enterprise environment.
• A proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and impact.
• Can thrive in ambiguity—able to drive clarity, alignment, and execution even when navigating the unknown.
• Lead through others - as the team grows you know how to delegate outcomes to others in a responsible way while still owning the final results.
• Relentlessly curious and always improving—you believe there’s always a better way and challenge the status quo.
• An interest in being customer-facing. We pride ourselves on being connected with our customers to understand their use cases in order to deliver them a great product experience.

Qualifications

• Defined technical vision and led the development of scalable, reliable, and elegant solutions.
• Successfully managed and scaled engineering teams in dynamic environments.
• Built and led AI-driven products that have been widely adopted in enterprise settings.
• Recruited, developed, and retained world-class engineering talent, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and impact.
• Thrived in ambiguous situations, driving clarity, alignment, and execution.
• Had a track record of leading through others, delegating outcomes while maintaining accountability.
• Showed a relentless curiosity and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Had experience building customer-facing products and understanding user needs.

Skills

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Experience with React, NextJS, Django, Postgres, and AWS.
• Experience with modern, best-in-class commercial large language models (LLMs).
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to mentor and coach a diverse team of engineers.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Equity in a hypergrowth startup.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401k.
• Parental Leave.
• Commute benefits (SF office employees).
• Work from home stipend.

Pay

$250K - $280K

Schedule

Full-Time US Employee