Engineering Manager – AI-Driven HR Frontends

Cascade AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Cascade AI builds AI agents that automate real HR work at scale—from onboarding and open enrollment to leave and compensation. We’re growing global and backed by Gradient Ventures; we’re seeking an Engineering Lead to own architecture and end-user experiences for Cascade’s AI agents.

This hands-on leadership role lets you grow a team, set technical direction, and partner with product and design to ship reliable, high-performance interfaces used by HR teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• Lead and grow a team of engineers and own delivery health.
• Strong proficiency in Python and cloud experience are required.
• Strong system design experience with production systems.
• Ownership of large, multi-sprint initiatives end-to-end.
• Clear product intuition to translate requirements into technical plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers — own day-to-day execution, technical direction, and the team’s delivery and health.
• Drive full-stack development of Cascade’s core end-user experiences: conversational interfaces, workflow surfaces, and agent-driven interactions.
• Architect frontend and backend systems that support real-time HR workflows.
• Make and guide architectural decisions balancing performance, reliability, and rapid iteration.
• Mentor and develop engineers through code reviews, pairing, and career guidance.
• Collaborate with product, design, and the AI/LLM platform team to define roadmap priorities and features.
• Turn user feedback into iterative improvements that increase clarity, trust, and engagement.
• Own production excellence: monitoring, observability, and incident response.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Product intuition

Autonomy

Tools

Python

Docker/Kubernetes

LangChain

WorkOS

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

Cascade AI builds AI agents that automate real HR work at scale—from onboarding and open enrollment to leave and compensation. We’re growing global and backed by Gradient Ventures; we’re seeking an Engineering Lead to own architecture and end-user experiences for Cascade’s AI agents.

This hands-on leadership role lets you grow a team, set technical direction, and partner with product and design to ship reliable, high-performance interfaces used by HR teams worldwide.