Tech Lead Manager - Context and Retrieval Systems

Profound; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound, the AI-enabled marketing platform, is hiring a Tech Lead Manager for our Context team in San Francisco. This hybrid role blends technical leadership with people management, requiring hands-on coding and architectural oversight.

You will guide integration services, knowledge base storage, and data synchronization, while growing a team of engineers and shaping the product’s retrieval quality. Compensation reflects seniority and impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years backend engineering experience with at least 2 years in tech leadership.
• Strong Python skills; this is the language the team lives in.
• Rust is strongly preferred for performance-sensitive areas.
• Hands-on experience building search or retrieval systems: embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, chunking.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale (OAuth, token refresh, rate limits).
• Strong Postgres skills; multi-tenant data models and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Context roadmap with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership on priorities.
• Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers; run interview loops and calibrate performance.
• Drive technical decisions on retrieval quality, memory schemas, and sync architectures.
• Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface with evaluative checks.
• Ship code yourself on high-leverage parts of the system.
• Be the engineering point of contact when integrations break or data becomes stale.
• Represent Context in conversations with product, sales, and exec teams on data access, freshness, or security commitments.
• Partner with teams building agent products as primary internal customers.

Skills

Backend engineering

Leadership

Python

Rust

Search systems

API integration

PostgreSQL

Hiring

IC contributor

Tools

MCP framework

Job description

Profound, the AI-enabled marketing platform, is hiring a Tech Lead Manager for our Context team in San Francisco. This hybrid role blends technical leadership with people management, requiring hands-on coding and architectural oversight.

You will guide integration services, knowledge base storage, and data synchronization, while growing a team of engineers and shaping the product’s retrieval quality. Compensation reflects seniority and impact.