Engineering Manager - Agentic AI Platforms (Hands-On Lead)

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 124,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa Hunt is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide a greenfield AI-first product with direct revenue impact. You will shape architecture, review designs, and personally build critical components while steering hiring and team priorities with product partners.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll lead distributed engineers, including partners in India, and set the standard for AI-native development practices, testing, and delivery

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years leading engineers as a manager or tech lead.
• Strong hands-on experience building production software in languages such as C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing and operating full-stack systems across frontend, backend, APIs, and data integrations on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineers.
• Experience owning technical strategy or architecture for a product or platform.
• Demonstrated ability to work with product and business stakeholders to set priorities and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building agentic AI capabilities such as agent orchestration and tool calling.
• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, write and review code, and build critical components.
• Own the technical strategy for the platform, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and business impact.

Skills

Team leadership

Languages: C#, Java, Python, JS/TS

AI-native engineering

Cloud architecture

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automated testing

Production operations

Job description

Visa Hunt is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide a greenfield AI-first product with direct revenue impact. You will shape architecture, review designs, and personally build critical components while steering hiring and team priorities with product partners.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll lead distributed engineers, including partners in India, and set the standard for AI-native development practices, testing, and delivery