Hands-On AI Tech Lead Manager

Loop inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Visa sponsorship may be available

Job summary

Loop is seeking an AI Tech Lead Manager / Engineering Manager in San Francisco to guide a small engineering team while staying hands-on in production code. You will report to the Director of Engineering, setting technical direction and growing engineers, with a focus on delivering reliable AI-powered automation for complex carrier expansion initiatives.

You'll balance coding with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and establishing clear performance expectations—while ensuring high-quality,

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on coding at senior engineer level.
• Experience with TypeScript and tools such as GraphQL, Relay, React, and Node.js.
• Experience working at early-stage companies where you shipped products end-to-end and wore many hats.
• Excited to build with AI and apply it to real customer problems. No prior AI or machine learning background is required; you will learn our AI stack here.
• At least two years of experience managing engineers, either in your current role or a previous one.
• A track record of growing engineers and raising the bar of a team.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for your team.
• Grow the engineers on your team by setting clear expectations, running one-on-ones, writing performance reviews, and giving direct feedback early rather than late.
• Define what good looks like on your team, and address it when the work falls short.
• Own the reliability of what your team ships, including production oncall and incident response.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and sales to understand requirements and ship thoughtful solutions.
• Build and ship the AI harness: the data pipelines, schemas, validation, and feedback loops that let agents do work reliably at scale.
• Start from the outcome, not the process: curate the harness, data, and success criteria instead of the specific logic, then let agents write and validate it against real data.
• Write high-quality code optimized for extensibility, working across component boundaries from frontend to backend, infrastructure, and our AI stack.
• Engage in code reviews to maintain a high bar of engineering excellence.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

React

Node.js

Engineering leadership

AI interest

Tools

AWS

CDK

Fargate ECS

Job description

Loop is seeking an AI Tech Lead Manager / Engineering Manager in San Francisco to guide a small engineering team while staying hands-on in production code. You will report to the Director of Engineering, setting technical direction and growing engineers, with a focus on delivering reliable AI-powered automation for complex carrier expansion initiatives.

You'll balance coding with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and establishing clear performance expectations—while ensuring high-quality,