Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Systems & Team Leadership

Polluxa, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak seeks an experienced engineering leader to build and grow a high-performing team in San Francisco. You will steer technical direction, coach engineers, and ship projects while maintaining quality and reliability.

You will collaborate with Product and Design, drive infra improvements, and foster a culture of ownership. In-person presence 3–4 days a week in SF is expected, with a global organizational context and rapid growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IC software engineering on fast-paced, high-performance teams.
• 4+ years of direct team management experience.
• Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background.
• Deeply technical with focus on shipping and tooling in AI-enabled environments.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of engineers while setting strong output and productivity expectations.
• Contributing technically, through coaching and leadership as well as direct contribution (shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, improving the agent environment).
• Driving engineering transformation by identifying manual work, bottlenecks, and gaps, and closing them.
• Setting pace and driving velocity while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Collaborating with Product/Design and other functions to execute effectively in the AI era.
• Proactively improving shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems for the org.
• Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Backend systems

Performance optimization

High velocity execution

Job description

Speak seeks an experienced engineering leader to build and grow a high-performing team in San Francisco. You will steer technical direction, coach engineers, and ship projects while maintaining quality and reliability.

You will collaborate with Product and Design, drive infra improvements, and foster a culture of ownership. In-person presence 3–4 days a week in SF is expected, with a global organizational context and rapid growth.