Tech Lead Manager, Context
ProfoundAI Marketing company
San Francisco, United States$230,000 - $275,000Manager
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Evantic
Saga Ventures
South Park Commons
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead and manage the Context engineering team, focusing on AI platform development.
- •Profound is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to build and lead their Context team.
- •This role involves technical leadership, people management, and hands-on coding to develop Profound's AI marketing platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the Context roadmap, partnering with leadership on priorities.
- •Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers.
- •Drive technical decisions on retrieval quality, graph/memory schemas, and sync architectures.
- •Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface.
- •Ship code yourself on high-leverage parts of the system.
- •Requirements 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team.
- •Strong Python skills; Rust is strongly preferred.
- •Hands-on experience building search or retrieval systems in production.
- •Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale.
- •Experience with data synchronization and pipeline correctness.
Required skills
PythonRustPostgreSQLEngineering ManagementTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
LLMs
Domain expertise
aideveloper-toolsmartech
Tech stack
PythonRustPostgreSQLOAuthGitLinuxREST APIgRPCWebSockets
