Full Stack Engineering Tech Lead

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San Francisco / $200000 - $300000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

$200000 - $300000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Title: Engineering Manager, Full Stack

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco

Client: Series A HR Technology Company

The Opportunity

This is a player-coach role built for a senior engineer who wants to lead without leaving the craft behind. You will spend the majority of your time, roughly 70%, as a hands-on contributor: writing production code, designing systems, and solving hard technical problems alongside your team. The other 30% is spent leading a small, tight-knit group of engineers, roughly five, through mentorship, delivery ownership, and technical direction.

What You'll Own

  • Hands-on development of full-stack features spanning React/TypeScript frontends and distributed backend systems, as a daily contributor
  • Architecture and design of scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) powering metrics and AI-driven workflows
  • Technical direction and code quality standards for a team of approximately five engineers
  • Mentorship, career development, and day-to-day delivery ownership for your direct reports
  • Pragmatic technical decision-making that balances speed-to-market with long-term system health
  • Hands-on work with modern infrastructure including PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and streaming technologies

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong full-stack foundation and a genuine love of building
  • 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead capacity, ideally in a player-coach model with direct reports and delivery ownership
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and at least one backend language (Ruby, Python, or Node.js)
  • Deep expertise in React, HTML/CSS, modern frontend tooling, component-based architecture, and state management
  • Proven experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems in data-intensive environments
  • Solid fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, and design documentation practices
  • Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, microservices, containerization)

Nice to Haves

  • React Native experience for mobile development
  • Familiarity with Redis, Apache Pinot, or other real-time analytics infrastructure

CONTACT

Gabriella Varela

Senior Sourcing Consultant

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