Hybrid Engineering Manager - Tooling & AI-Driven Platform

Sierra Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,500 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive starting pay

Discretionary annual bonus

New hire equity grant

Comprehensive health plans

401K with company matching

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Gemini is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Product) for its Toolsing department in New York City. You will lead engineers across backend, web, and mobile, shaping roadmaps and goals, guiding design, and growing career paths while championing AI-assisted development and scalable architectures.

You will be in person twice a week at the NYC office, with a hybrid approach across hub offices in the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development and delivery.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams delivering high-quality software for customers.
• Technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
• Experience with AI coding tools and automation in the development workflow.
• Expertise in full-stack systems built with Scala or Java (or similar) and React Native.
• Experience building consumer-facing applications with a product- and UX-focused mindset.
• Experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.

Responsibilities

• Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team.
• Stay deeply involved in the team's system architecture — guiding new systems and integrations, and using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling, performance, and availability across onboarding, compliance (KYC/identity), and customer support workflows serving millions of users.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices through high-quality code review feedback, design reviews, testing, and CI/CD, and help the team adopt and advance our AI coding tools and agentic development pipeline.
• Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to internally and externally imposed deadlines and targets.
• Make hiring plans and hiring decisions.
• Give frequent feedback and coaching, coordinating with people around the company to get a full picture of your team's performance.
• Provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for your team to execute on its priorities and evolve its capabilities over time.
• Communicate at all levels, from senior leaders to individual contributors, across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adapt the team's plans and goals to changing realities in a fast-moving industry.
• Effectively resolve ambiguity, helping the team analyze complex requirements and break initiatives into tasks.
• Own the team's output, taking responsibility for everyone's performance.
• Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends.

Skills

Software development

Engineering management

System design

AI tooling

Scala/Java & React Native

Product UX mindset

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

React Native

Job description

Gemini is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Product) for its Toolsing department in New York City. You will lead engineers across backend, web, and mobile, shaping roadmaps and goals, guiding design, and growing career paths while championing AI-assisted development and scalable architectures.

You will be in person twice a week at the NYC office, with a hybrid approach across hub offices in the United States.