Engineering Manager

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar 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 do

• Manage 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.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 10+ 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 points

• Experience with Python and TypeScript.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

Base salary

USD 415,000 to 450,000 per year

• Equity

Location and work model

• San Francisco, California, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office
• Full-time