Technical Lead Manager

pointdigitalfinance; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Point is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to build AI agents for homeownership. You will lead a small, senior team, stay hands-on in the code, set technical direction, and partner with Product, Ops and CX to ship applied AI that customers interact with.

If you're excited to define the AI strategy for CX and deliver end-to-end, customer-facing features—voice, email, chat, and SMS agents—this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering with production systems.
• 2+ years in engineering leadership or management.
• Proven track record delivering real-world AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Define the AI technical strategy for CX, including frameworks and vendors.
• Own the technical roadmap for AI-powered customer experience across channels.
• Write code with your team, review PRs, and prototype agent capabilities.
• Partner with Product, CX, and Ops to ship AI-driven workflows.
• Establish success metrics and drive observability across the stack.
• Lead a small senior team, remove blockers, and foster deep work.
• Drive reliability and architecture for production-scale AI agents.

Skills

LLM-powered AI experience

Engineering leadership

System design

Observability

Code review

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Langfuse

Job description

About Point

• Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.
• Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we're scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.
• Game-changing Product: We're building a category defining company in home equity. We've earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 20,000+ customers.
• Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area .
• Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in the U.S., while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.

Location

This is a hybrid role based in Palo Alto, with team members expected to work onsite one day per week for in-person collaboration.

About the role

AI is reshaping how we serve homeowners at Point - from voice agents to email, chat, and SMS agents that enable self-service at scale. We're hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead the team building them. You'll run a small, senior team, stay hands-on in the code, set technical direction, and work directly with Product, Ops, and CX. If you want to ship applied AI that customers directly interact with, this is the role.

Check out our latest Engineering Blog to learn more about why it's a great time to join Point's Engineering team!

Your responsibilities

• Define the AI technical strategy for CX, including evaluating and selecting frameworks, platforms, and vendor solutions.
• Own the technical roadmap for Point's AI-powered customer experience - voice, email, chat, and SMS agents that handle real homeowner interactions.
• Write code alongside your team - review PRs, prototype new agent capabilities, and debug production issues.
• Partner with Product, CX, and Ops to identify where AI agents can replace or augment manual workflows, then ship it.
• Establish success metrics for agent performance and use data to prioritize the roadmap.
• Design reliable agent architectures - orchestration, tool use, guardrails, fallback handling - that work at production scale.
• Lead and grow a small, senior engineering team: set high expectations, remove blockers, create space for deep work.
• Drive observability and reliability across the AI agent stack, leveraging tools like Langfuse.

About you

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including at least 2 years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience developing and shipping LLM-powered, conversational AI, or agentic systems in real-world environments.
• Track record of delivering customer-facing products end-to-end, from initial design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Strong ability to partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Operations, CX) to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and deliver measurable impact.
• Deep systems design expertise, with a focus on building reliable, observable, real-time services.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including guiding architecture decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring high-quality execution.
• Experience defining and driving technical strategy and roadmaps for AI-driven, agentic customer experiences aligned with business objectives.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Experience managing and mentoring engineers, driving performance, and building a strong, accountable engineering culture.
• Hands-on experience with LLM and agent development, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool usage, and orchestration frameworks.
• Comfortable making build-vs-buy decisions and rigorously evaluating third-party vendors and platforms.
• Familiarity with conversational AI infrastructure such as telephony, messaging APIs, or chat platforms at scale (preferred).
• Experience with AI/ML evaluation and observability, including instrumentation for quality, drift detection, and continuous improvement (preferred).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location. Point has identified the expected annual base salary for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area | $234,650 - $259,350

This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources a