Engineering Manager

Raydar; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, vision and dental

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan with employer matching

Workstation and learning and develop-

Job summary

Raydar is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a hands-on team building AI-powered features in a fast-growth environment. You will set technical direction, review designs, and contribute code while mentoring engineers and shaping the team’s growth.

The role requires strong TypeScript skills, recent hands-on AI experience, and experience managing 3–15 IC engineers at a fast-growing company. Hybrid work in SF/NY is offered with in-office days.

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript skills with frontend and database experience
• Recent hands-on background building AI-powered software
• Experience managing teams of 3–15 IC engineers
• Prior time at a rapidly expanding young company.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team building AI-driven product features.
• Set technical strategy and review system designs.
• Write code and contribute hands-on work.
• Manage engineers and support growth and quality.
• Recruit strong engineering talent to the team.

Skills

TypeScript

Front-end

Database

Hands-on AI

Team management

Talent recruitment

Python

Tools

Python

Job description

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a hands-on engineering team building AI-driven product features, setting technical direction, reviewing designs and contributing code while managing and growing the engineers on the team.

What you’ll do

• Lead an engineering team building AI-driven product features.
• Set technical strategy and review system designs.
• Write code and contribute directly to the team's hands-on work.
• Manage engineers, set a high bar for quality and support their growth.
• Recruit strong engineering talent to the team.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• Strong TypeScript skills, with front-end and database experience.
• Recent hands-on background, from the past few years, building AI-powered software beyond casual use of such tools.
• Experience managing teams of 3 to 15 individual contributor engineers.
• Prior time at a rapidly expanding young company, ideally one in its later growth years.

Bonus points

• Comfortable working in Python.
• Formal training in a technical discipline such as computing or engineering.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: $221K to $295K
• Equity
• Health, vision and dental coverage
• Flexible time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan with employer matching
• Workstation and learning and development support

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States or New York, NY, United States
• Hybrid, with 2 days in office per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
• Full-time