Tech Lead Manager, Context Systems — Hybrid SF Office

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

Job summary

Profound, the AI-powered marketing platform, seeks a Tech Lead Manager for the Context team in San Francisco. You will split time between technical leadership and people management, owning the integration service, catalog, knowledge base, data synchronization, and context management.

The role requires hands‑on coding, architectural decision‑making, and team development. You will lead a team of engineers, drive retrieval quality improvements, and coordinate with product and executive leadership

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech‑leading a team.
• Strong Python. This is the language the team lives in
• Rust is strongly preferred, parts of this system are performance sensitive
• Hands‑on experience building search or retrieval systems in production: embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking
• Experience integrating with third‑party APIs at scale, including OAuth, token refresh, rate limits
• Experience with data synchronization and pipeline correctness: incremental sync, idempotency, backfills, reconciliation
• Strong Postgres skills; ability to reason about indexes, query plans, multi‑tenant data models, migrations
• Experience hiring senior ICs and giving direct, useful feedback
• Comfortable being an IC contributor on the team you manage; programming still expected

Responsibilities

• Lead the Context roadmap, partnering with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership on priorities
• Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers, including running interview loops, calibrating performance, and setting expectations clearly
• Drive technical decisions on hard problems: retrieval quality, graph/memory schemas, sync architectures, and an integration framework
• Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface, with evals to catch regressions
• Ship code yourself on the highest-leverage parts of the system
• Be the engineering point of contact when a customer's integration breaks or data issues arise
• Represent Context in conversations about data access, freshness, or security commitments
• Partner with teams building agent products as internal customers

Skills

Backend engineering

Team leadership

Python

Rust

Retrieval systems

Data synchronization

Third‑party APIs

Memory systems

IC collaboration

Tools

OAuth

PostgreSQL

Job description

Profound, the AI-powered marketing platform, seeks a Tech Lead Manager for the Context team in San Francisco. You will split time between technical leadership and people management, owning the integration service, catalog, knowledge base, data synchronization, and context management.

The role requires hands‑on coding, architectural decision‑making, and team development. You will lead a team of engineers, drive retrieval quality improvements, and coordinate with product and executive leadership