Manager, Software Engineering (Data & AI/ML)

This is a hybrid leadership role part tech lead and architect, part people manager. You'll own the technical direction and delivery of the team: shaping how we productionize deterministic and classical ML pipelines (and increasingly, AI pipelines built around LLM calls), setting architectural standards, and making the calls on how our services scale and evolve. You'll manage a team of roughly 57 engineers and QAs, growing them technically and professionally, while staying hands-on enough to lead by example in the codebase. Expect roughly 70% technical leadership and architecture, 30% people management with hands-on engineering woven throughout. We're looking primarily for technical depth and judgment. Formal people-management experience is valuable but not the deciding factor we'll coach the right technically astute leader into the management side. Responsibilities: Own the architecture, technical roadmap, and delivery of the team's backend and AI/ML systems, from design through pro...