About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead an engineering team as a hands-on player-coach, staying active in the codebase while mentoring engineers and expanding the group. Work with business and customer-facing colleagues on product decisions, reporting directly to the CTO.
What you'll do
- Manage a group of experienced staff-level and principal-level engineers as it expands over time.
- Stay technically involved each week by writing code, reviewing designs and debugging difficult problems.
- Deliver customer-facing AI products for enterprise users.
- Mentor engineers with candid feedback, strengthening their technical and product decision-making and preparing future leaders.
- Lead recruiting, onboarding and team growth to build an engineering organization with a high talent bar.
- Link engineering choices to business results by partnering with domain experts and customer-facing teams.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience, including formal engineering management with 2 to 10 direct reports.
- Management background at a leading, fast-paced technology company.
- Current individual contributor skills: writing production software, reviewing designs and pull requests, and debugging.
- Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products.
- A track record of growing engineering teams from recruiting through ramp-up, ideally including staff-level and principal-level engineers.
- Depth in backend engineering or backend infrastructure; full-stack with a backend lean is fine.
- Familiarity with machine learning or AI-driven systems, such as retrieval-based or agent-based approaches.
- Strong people leadership: clear expectations, direct feedback, early handling of performance concerns and helping engineers step into larger roles.
Bonus points
- Experience with Python and TypeScript.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 415,000 to 450,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience
- Formal engineering management experience with 2 to 10 direct reports
- Management experience at a leading, fast-paced technology company
- Current individual contributor skills, including production software development, design and pull request reviews, and debugging
- Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products
- Experience growing engineering teams from recruiting through ramp-up
- Depth in backend engineering or backend infrastructure; full-stack experience with a backend focus accepted
- Familiarity with machine learning or AI-driven systems, including retrieval-based or agent-based approaches
- Strong people leadership, including setting expectations, providing direct feedback, addressing performance concerns, and developing engineers
- Experience with Python and TypeScript
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
