Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Native Platform

Foodsmart; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid health insurance

Flexible working location

Unlimited PTO

401k, bonus & stock options

Job summary

Foodsmart’s Engineering, Product, and Design team seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an org of ~16 engineers and set technical direction for a HIPAA/SOC 2–aware web stack. You will partner with product and design to turn roadmaps into well-architected systems, champion AI adoption, and raise the bar on quality and velocity.

You will own four AI pods end-to-end, manage cross-pod dependencies, and ensure delivery aligns with measurable member and business impact while mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience leading 10+ engineers in startup or high-growth environments.
• Experience in regulated environments (healthcare/digital health) is a plus.
• Hands-on AI-native development experience with agentic systems and LLM integrations.
• Excellent mentorship and coaching skills.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile/Lean practices (Scrum/Kanban) with Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-native development and four AI pods end to end.
• Manage cross-pod dependencies and mitigate delivery risks.
• Shape scalable architecture across React.js/TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redshift.
• Stay outcome-focused, tying engineering decisions to member and business impact.
• Champion AI adoption across tooling and product features.
• Raise engineering quality with testing, observability, CI/CD.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads; build future tech leadership.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

AI-native development

Leadership

Architecture reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Communication

Agile/Lean practices

AWS

PostgreSQL/Redshift

Docker/Kubernetes

React/TypeScript

HIPAA/SOC2 awareness

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Cursor

Figma

Google Workspace

Loom

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Docker/Kubernetes

GraphQL

RESTful API

Job description

Foodsmart’s Engineering, Product, and Design team seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an org of ~16 engineers and set technical direction for a HIPAA/SOC 2–aware web stack. You will partner with product and design to turn roadmaps into well-architected systems, champion AI adoption, and raise the bar on quality and velocity.

You will own four AI pods end-to-end, manage cross-pod dependencies, and ensure delivery aligns with measurable member and business impact while mentoring engineers