Engineering Manager, AI Product & Platform

Jobgether; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote opportunity

Competitive salary

Career development

Flexible working

Work on modern AI-enabled products

Global distributed teams

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager for AI Product Development, based in South Africa, with a hands-on leadership approach to build scalable AI-enabled products and software platforms.

You will lead senior engineers, shape architecture across frontend, backend, data, cloud, and AI systems, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production systems.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, and taking accountability for technical delivery.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities such as LLMs, AI agents, RAG systems, or AI-powered workflows into products or engineering processes.
• Strong experience with modern web development using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Proven ability to design scalable APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience with CI/CD automation, testing strategies, monitoring, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical leadership with hands-on execution and delivery accountability.
• Experience modernizing systems and improving engineering effectiveness through automation, tooling, and process improvements.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to evaluate trade-offs involving scalability, maintainability, cost, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across product and technical functions.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment with globally distributed teams.
• A coaching-oriented leadership style and commitment to developing engineers and creating a high-performing technical culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of senior software engineers, fostering ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Design, Operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and high-impact product outcomes.
• Influence product direction by challenging assumptions, advocating for user-focused decisions, and helping teams prioritize meaningful outcomes.
• Design, review, and evolve scalable architectures while breaking complex initiatives into actionable technical plans.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and delivery.
• Guide development of modern full-stack applications using technologies such as TypeScript, React, Next.js, shadcn/ui, Supabase/Postgres, APIs, and cloud services.
• Provide technical leadership across frontend, backend, data, distributed systems, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical design discussions while maintaining strong engineering standards.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational practices across the engineering organization.
• Monitor engineering metrics and delivery indicators to identify risks, improve predictability, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Lead modernization initiatives, technical debt reduction, automation, and broader platform evolution efforts.
• Remain hands-on when needed, contributing to architecture, implementation, debugging, technical investigations, and proof-of-concept development.
• Promote effective asynchronous communication and collaboration across globally distributed teams.

Skills

8+ years engineering

Team leadership

AI integration

TypeScript

React

Next.js

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

PostgreSQL

MySQL

CI/CD

Hands-on delivery

Automation tooling

Software architecture

Stakeholder management

Coaching

Tools

shadcn/ui

Supabase

PostgreSQL

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager for AI Product Development, based in South Africa, with a hands-on leadership approach to build scalable AI-enabled products and software platforms.

You will lead senior engineers, shape architecture across frontend, backend, data, cloud, and AI systems, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.