Engineering Manager

The RoleRaydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead an engineering team as a hands-on player-coach, staying active in the codebase while mentoring engineers and expanding the group. Work with business and customer-facing colleagues on product decisions, reporting directly to the CTO.What You'll DoManage a group of experienced staff-level and principal-level engineers as it expands over time. Stay technically involved each week by writing code, reviewing designs and debugging difficult problems. Deliver customer-facing AI products for enterprise users. Mentor engineers with candid feedback, strengthening their technical and product decision-making and preparing future leaders. Lead recruiting, onboarding and team growth to build an engineering organization with a high talent bar. Link engineering choices to business results by partnering with domain experts and customer-facing teams.What We're Looking For10+ years of experience, including formal engineering management with 2 to 10 direct reports. Management background at a leading, fast-paced technology company. Current individual contributor skills: writing production software, reviewing designs and pull requests, and debugging. Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products. A track record of growing engineering teams from recruiting through ramp-up, ideally including staff-level and principal-level engineers. Depth in backend engineering or backend infrastructure; full-stack with a backend lean is fine. Familiarity with machine learning or AI-driven systems, such as retrieval-based or agent-based approaches. Strong people leadership: clear expectations, direct feedback, early handling of performance concerns and helping engineers step into larger roles.Bonus PointsExperience with Python and TypeScript.Location And Work ModelSan Francisco, California, United States On-site, 5 days per week in office Full-timeCompensation, As The Posting Describes ItEquity