Senior Engineering Manager, Product

Required

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• A track record of leading teams that build and operate consumer-facing products, with measurable improvements in customer experience, engagement, or business outcomes.
• Strong product judgment and experience partnering with Product and Design to turn ambiguous customer problems into clear technical direction and execution plans.
• A substantial hands-on engineering background with deep backend or full-stack expertise and strong Python proficiency, the ability to review code and challenge architectural assumptions, and experience guiding technical decisions across the full stack.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, including schema design, transactions, indexing, query optimization, and safe migrations.
• Experience designing asynchronous and event-driven applications, including background jobs, message processing, retries, idempotency, ordering, and failure recovery.
• Experience using Redis or similar systems, with sound judgment around caching, expiration, invalidation, memory usage, and failure behavior.
• Working knowledge of modern frontend engineering, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, component-based frameworks, responsive single-page applications, and browser performance.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, and real-time client-server communication, including WebSockets or streaming responses.
• Practical experience delivering AI- or LLM-powered features, with an understanding of model integration, retrieval, evaluation, and the tradeoffs among output quality, latency, reliability, privacy, and cost.
• Experience deploying and operating production services on AWS or a comparable cloud platform, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and safe releases.
• A track record of improving engineering quality through code reviews, unit and integration tests, UI testing, and production diagnostics.