PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Engineering Manager
LightTable is an AI-powered construction document review platform built for preconstruction teams. We automate cross-document conflict detection across the complex, multi-party workflows that define how large commercial projects are designed and built.
Since then, large real estate developers and contractors have used LightTable to improve how they build data centers, bioscience labs, an airport, high-rise condos and more. We recently closed our Series A, led by Innovation Endeavors, the largest Series A of any AI-native SaaS company in Colorado history.
We move fast, we care about leverage, and we build with AI, not just for our customers but internally too.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of two engineering pods. Engineering is about ten people today and we expect 15–20 within a year. That is deliberate: we build with AI coding tools and believe the highest-leverage engineering org stays small. Because our codebase started in 2025, you are working with a modern React and Python stack rather than a decade of accumulated tech debt.
How Engineering Is Organized
We are moving to a two-pod structure, and we want to be specific about it because it shapes what this job actually is.

Each pod carries the full range of skills it needs, across AI, web, backend and infrastructure, so it can own complete features end to end instead of handing work across team boundaries.
He stays accountable for technical vision, core architecture, and overall team operations. Lead a pod of AI and web engineers day to day: priorities, weekly cadence, unblocking, and shipping on a schedule the business can plan around.
Design reviews, architectural tradeoffs, and the quality bar are yours, and you stay close enough to the code to make those calls well.
Manage performance directly. Help us figure out how to build with AI coding tools. Work directly with design partners and customers. Preconstruction teams, GCs, and data center builders will shape what your pod builds.
10+ years coding professionally, including 3+ years leading a software team. You have owned performance and hiring, and you have been the person accountable when the team missed.

• You will lead a team of AI and web engineers, and you should be a doer too. You do not need to be writing code full time, but you want to stay hands-on and in the details. Forward-thinking about AI coding tools. You are already working with Claude Code or OpenAI Codex, and you are still thoughtful about where they help and where they do not.
• Startup experience where the lines between code, data, product, and design tend to blur, and comfort operating in that overlap.
• Strong experience with modern React and with Python (FastAPI), or comparable full-stack depth you can transfer quickly.
• Comfort building with LLMs. You have shipped something real on top of them, or you are clearly hungry to.
• Based in the Denver metro area, in our downtown office 3 days a week (Mon/Wed/Thurs).

Experience with data infrastructure, ML/AI tooling, or AI evaluation systems.
Experience building a hiring bar and interview loop from scratch.
Safeguard sensitive information: handle confidential company, employee, customer, and investor data (financials, board materials, HR records, fundraising diligence) in accordance with LightTable's information security and confidentiality policies.
Practice responsible data handling: follow least-privilege access principles, use approved tools and storage systems, and protect credentials for all company accounts.
Complete security training: finish required security and privacy awareness training upon hire and on an ongoing basis.
Report incidents promptly: escalate any suspected security incidents, data exposures, or policy violations to leadership without delay.
Shape the engineering org at the moment it forms. Ground-floor opportunity with meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.
Real impact: we are building fast and partnering with some of the largest developers and contractors in the country.