Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Siena, a company building enterprise empathic AI Agents, as a Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will lead and mentor engineers, enhance software design and architecture, and drive best practices. This role involves managing the engineering process from conception to deployment, collaborating with other teams, and applying expertise in Postgres and CI/CD tools. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software engineering and management experience, a strong background in software architecture, and familiarity with LLMs and AI. Siena offers competitive salary and equity, flexible work arrangements, generous time off, and a learning budget.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years of experience managing a team of 10+ software engineers
• You have experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring and developing engineering talent
• You have a strong background in software architecture, specifically with highly scalable, robust SaaS applications
• You communicate complex ideas effectively and align team efforts
• You have a track record of strong technical judgment and delivering creative solutions that delight customers
• You're experienced with agile methodologies and committed to continuous improvement
• You have a working knowledge of LLMs, AI or machine learning
• You're familiar with backend development in NodeJS, Typescript, Express, and AWS services
• You have experience with Postgres and CI/CD tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins

Responsibilities

• Directly manage engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture of growth and high performance, including goal setting, performance management and career development
• Lead the engineering process from conception to deployment
• Lead software design and architectural decisions
• Collaborate with Product and Design to define project requirements and goals
• Manage cycle planning and delivery, estimation, engineering resource allocation
• Conduct code reviews and manage releases
• Develop solutions for ambiguous problems, collaborating with Product, Design, and Customer Success
• Apply your experience with Postgres and CI/CD tools to improve our engineering practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with remote or distributed teams
• Professional experience developing systems that use Generative AI
• Involvement in open-source or personal projects

Benefits

• Real impact. Your work will directly shape our product and company
• A seat at the table. In a small team, every voice matters. Yours will be heard
• Freedom to work your way. Home, coffee shop, moon base - if you're productive, we're happy
• Top pay. Competitive salary and an opportunity for equity or stock grants
• Time off when you need it. Take at least 15 days. More if you need it
• Budget to keep learning. Because if you're not growing, we're not growing
• The chance to build something from the ground up. This is the time when what you do has the biggest impact
• Problems worth solving. We're reshaping how work gets done