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Engineering Manager

🏢 Pumpcareers · 📍 San Francisco, CA · 💼 onsite 💰 $180,000 - $180,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and grow our engineering team as we scale our AI-powered cloud optimization platform. You'll play a key leadership role in shaping technical strategy, building scalable systems, and mentoring top-tier engineering talent.

This is an onsite role where you’ll stay actively involved in architecture and coding, while also managing people and processes. You’ll work closely with the founding team and cross-functional partners to ensure our engineering organization is aligned with product and business goals.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale the engineering team from 10 to 20+ engineers, including hiring and team structuring

  • Stay hands-on with architecture and development—this is a technical leadership role

  • Own the delivery of scalable, performant systems across AI, infrastructure, and cloud services

  • Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to translate strategy into execution

  • Mentor and develop engineers at all levels, fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture

  • Help shape engineering culture, tooling, and practices as we grow

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of total engineering experience

  • 5+ years in a managerial or technical leadership role

  • Experience as a CTO, Eng Lead, or similar role at a com

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