Tech Lead / Engineering Manager – Product Engineering (San Francisco)


A cutting-edge AI startup with $70M+ in funding and a differentiated approach to building and owning proprietary data assets. We’re looking for a hands-on product engineering leader with 5–10 years of full-stack experience who is comfortable writing code regularly. You should have shipped zero-to-one, user-facing products and built scalable, data-intensive systems, ideally at a high-growth startup. This is 5 days/week on-site in San Francisco, so you must be local or willing to relocate. 2+ years of engineering management or founder/early-stage startup experience is highly desired.


Comp: $275K–$325K base + competitive equity

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL


🛠️ You will:

  • Lead, hire, and grow a high-performing product engineering team.
  • Work closely with senior technical leadership on architecture and product execution.
  • Build new customer-facing products from the ground up.
  • Design and scale systems handling large volumes of complex data.
  • Stay hands-on with code while setting the technical direction for the team.


🧩 100% Required:

  • 5–10 years of product-focused full-stack engineering experience.
  • Technical leadership experience within a high-growth startup or scale-up.
  • Strong full-stack and backend fundamentals with modern web technologies.
  • Proven experience taking user-facing products from 0→1.
  • Experience building high-scale, data-intensive systems or pipelines.
  • Comfortable leading engineers while remaining highly hands-on technically.


🪶 Other Skills:

  • 2+ years of Engineering Management experience.
  • Former founder or early employee at a successful startup.
  • Experience growing engineering teams in fast-moving environments.
  • Python and AI/ML experience.


🧬 How The Company Works

  • Hyper-growth – a rapidly scaling team with strong early commercial traction.
  • High-caliber customers – technology is used by some of the world’s leading technology and AI organizations.
  • Well-funded – $70M+ raised with significant runway.
  • Fast-moving – engineers own projects end-to-end and ship frequently.
  • Technically ambitious – solving difficult product and data problems at significant scale.
  • High ownership – work closely with technical leadership and help shape the engineering organization.