Engineering Leader (Player-Coach) for AI/Data Platform

Sunset; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Replay in New York is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and guide a high-agency team focused on enterprise data, AI, and ML workflows. You will shape the technical operating system, foster independent ownership, and balance delivery with thoughtful design and long-term reliability.

You will hire, mentor, and empower engineers while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical design reviews and incidents to drive scalable, trustworthy systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience directly managing engineers who build production software.
• Proven track record hiring, giving feedback, and developing senior engineers into broader owners.
• Experience leading technically demanding products with complex workflows, data systems, AI/ML, or sensitive information.
• Ability to review designs, debug with the team, and guide critical decisions.
• Comfort with using AI engineering tools and evaluating their impact.
• Startup experience with broad ownership and fast context switching.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers into strong independent owners.
• Define ownership and technical direction across the product and systems your team is responsible for.
• Turn customer behavior, product usage, data quality, system health, and team evidence into a sequenced roadmap.
• Review important designs and pull requests, debug difficult failures alongside the team, and lead technical decisions and incidents when needed.
• Prototype or contribute code selectively when it resolves ambiguity, unblocks the team, or creates reusable leverage.
• Establish lightweight practices for planning, evaluation, releases, incidents, quality, and learning.
• Delegate meaningful decisions without becoming detached from the technical work.
• Lead difficult production and customer situations without creating a hero culture.
• Make security, privacy, permissions, AI behavior, and recovery part of product and engineering design.
• Use AI engineering tools directly and establish team practices for speed, review, evaluation, and verification.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Code review

Performance management

Hiring

Job description

Replay in New York is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and guide a high-agency team focused on enterprise data, AI, and ML workflows. You will shape the technical operating system, foster independent ownership, and balance delivery with thoughtful design and long-term reliability.

You will hire, mentor, and empower engineers while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical design reviews and incidents to drive scalable, trustworthy systems.