Remote AI Engineering Manager: Lead Scalable Systems

Uncover; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Uncover is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions of users. This role demands technical depth, strong architecture decisions, and the ability to drive ideas to production in a fully remote environment.

You will manage frontend, backend and full‑stack engineers, shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, performance and observability across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability and technical quality.
• Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution.
• Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems.
• Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability.
• Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions.
• Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale.
• Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor systems, resolve incidents, identify root causes and ensure problems do not repeat.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Team leadership

Full stack development

Frontend development

Backend development

API design

Job description

Uncover is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions of users. This role demands technical depth, strong architecture decisions, and the ability to drive ideas to production in a fully remote environment.

You will manage frontend, backend and full‑stack engineers, shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, performance and observability across distributed systems.