About SewerAI Corporation
SewerAI is transforming underground infrastructure management through AI-powered inspection and risk analysis. Our platform helps contractors, engineering firms, and utilities unlock valuable insights from sewer inspection data—turning hours of manual video review into actionable intelligence in minutes. After doubling our customer base over the past year, we’re now entering an exciting phase of accelerated growth.
We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager to own and drive product delivery on our SewerAI platform — an automated sewer inspection analysis and asset management product used by municipalities and contractors across the country. This is a deeply product-focused leadership role: you'll partner closely with Product and Design to shape what we build, rally a team of engineers around shipping it, and still get your hands dirty in the codebase. You'll be the connective tissue between product strategy and engineering execution, ensuring we're building the right things, building them well, and shipping them fast.
This is not a "managers who used to code" role. You'll be expected to participate in architecture decisions, review code, unblock engineers technically, and contribute code yourself — all while coaching and growing a high-performing engineering team.
What You'll Do
Own Product Delivery End-to-End: Partner with Product and Design from discovery through delivery. Translate product vision into engineering plans, set priorities, and drive execution with a bias toward shipping.
Lead & Grow a Team: Manage a team of full-stack and backend engineers. Run 1:1s, give direct feedback, support career growth, and build a culture of ownership and accountability.
Shape the Product: Be a strong voice in what we build, not just how. Challenge product requirements, advocate for the user, identify gaps, and push for simplicity and impact.
Drive Technical Quality: Set engineering standards for your team. Participate in design reviews, ensure architectural decisions hold up, and keep the codebase healthy.
Ship with Urgency: Remove blockers, cut scope ruthlessly when needed, and keep the team focused on outcomes over output. You care about what's in production, not what's in the backlog.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Infrastructure to coordinate across the organization and ensure your team has what it needs.
What We're Looking For
7+ years of full-stack development experience
2+ years of engineering management or tech lead experience with direct reports
Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and React skills
Backend experience with Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and RESTful API design
Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred) with Docker and CI/CD
Deep product empathy — you think in terms of user problems, not just technical problems
Strong product instinct — you can articulate why something should or shouldn't be built
Bias toward action — you'd rather ship and iterate than plan endlessly
Experience recruiting, interviewing, and growing engineers
Nice-to-Have
Geospatial data / GIS systems
Computer vision or image processing
Temporal.io or workflow orchestration
Data analytics (ClickHouse, dbt)
Municipal / infrastructure domain knowledge
Experience leading product-focused engineering teams in a startup
Our Stack
Monorepo (Turborepo + npm workspaces), React + TypeScript frontend, Fastify APIs, Python data services
PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Prisma ORM
Temporal.io for workflow orchestration
AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS), Docker, CI/CD
What You'll Gain
Meaningful work on infrastructure that impacts communities nationwide
Cutting-edge tech at the intersection of AI, geospatial analysis, and web development
Direct influence on product direction and company trajectory
Leadership growth in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
This role is for someone who gets energy from shipping great products and making their team better. If you care as much about the "what" and "why" as the "how," we'd love to talk.
Compensation: $160,000-$180,000
Benefits include:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401(k), and more
Unlimited PTO
Tools you need to get the job done
Competitive salary and potential equity-based remuneration
Join the fastest-growing team in wastewater tech and help modernize critical infrastructure with AI. You’ll own high-visibility projects, influence how our brand meets the market, and see your work drive measurable impact for customers and communities.
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SewerAI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Top Skills
What We Do
SewerAI is transforming the way utilities maintain & rehab their underground infrastructure. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence, SewerAI's AutoCode™ tools automatically detect conditions in pipeline inspection data from CCTV crawler, digital side scanners, drones, GoPros, & jetter cameras.
SewerAI’s web-based platform, Pioneer™ enables contractors, utilities, & engineers to upload data, review condition reports, send & receive submittals, & collaborate on capital planning like never before.
Based in Walnut Creek, CA, SewerAI was founded in Q1 of 2019 & is a funded early stage startup. It’s staff & advisors posses a combined total of over 150+ years performing condition assessments in sewer collection systems, and with tens of millions of linear feet of sewer data under management.
SewerAI is committed the solutions it creates are relevant, useful, & integrate seamlessly with existing hardware, software, & industry standards for condition assessment deliverables.
