Engineering Manager

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 200000 - 225000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Engineering Manager (Player-Coach) - AI & Real-Time Data Platform

Location: On site - San Francisco or New York

We are an ambitious high-growth AI and Media startup redefining how organizations comprehend summarize and act on insights from real-time traditional and social media data (text audio and video). We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to build lead and scale our engineering team driving technical excellence and a high-velocity culture as we rapidly expand our enterprise-grade platform.

This is a critical player-coach role where you will blend technical leadership with hands-on contribution. You will set the technical direction for our stack scale our infrastructure for enterprise customers and build a high-performing team. Success requires a constant balance between shipping with urgency to meet customer demands and making sound architectural decisions to ensure long-term scalability and reliability.

What You Will Do:

Team Leadership: Build and lead the team recruiting mentoring and growing a high-performing group of engineers while fostering a culture of ownership speed and rigor.
Technical Direction: Set the technical direction by making foundational architecture and infrastructure decisions across our modern web and data stack.
Ship with Urgency: Balance short-term customer needs with long-term scalability ensuring the team prioritizes high-leverage work and avoids analysis paralysis.
Stay Hands-On: Roll up your sleeves to debug prototype and ship when needed maintaining your technical edge while coaching and managing.
Reliability at Scale: Lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure data pipelines and CI/CD processes to support enterprise-grade customers reliably.
Bridge & Solutions: Work closely with Product and Customer Success teams to understand user pain points and quickly translate them into technical solutions.

Requirements

Experience: 5 8 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer with at least 2 years spent managing or leading more junior team members.
Core Tech Stack: Strong technical depth and proficiency in our core stack: TypeScript React Python and Node.
Infrastructure: Strong experience with cloud infrastructure data pipelines and distributed systems (AWS/GCP SQL/NoSQL).
Mindset: Proven ability to act as a player-coach designing complex systems while actively contributing code.
Work Ethic: Bias for action decisive and pragmatic in fast-moving environments focused on shipping with rigor.

Location & Logistics:

Location: In-person in our New York City or San Francisco offices (Full-Time position).
Visa: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Benefits

Salary & Equity: Highly competitive base salary range of $200000 $225000 per year plus Competitive Equity (stock options).
Healthcare: Full Healthcare Coverage (Medical Dental Vision) for peace of mind.
Time Off: Unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off).
Impact: Foundational leadership role in a high-growth company (10% month-over-month) aimed at being the definitive vertical AI company for communications.
Culture: Join a team that prioritizes ownership speed and rigor with a flat open structure that rewards impact.

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DescriptionEngineering Manager (Player-Coach) - AI & Real-Time Data PlatformLocation: On site - San Francisco or New YorkWe are an ambitious high-growth AI and Media startup redefining how organizations comprehend summarize and act on insights from real-time traditional and social media data (text a...