Manager, Software Engineer (AI)
$195,000–$205,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or Austin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of AI software engineers while defining technical architecture for AI platforms, services, and enterprise applications. Drive engineering execution by establishing priorities, managing delivery, and ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes for production-grade AI solutions. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Security, and business stakeholders to translate objectives into scalable technical solutions, including RAG, AI agents, and integrations with leading LLM providers. Establish engineering best practices for development, testing, deployment, and operational support while recruiting and developing high-performing talent. This role requires 8+ years of experience leading AI/ML teams and is based in Vestwell's New York office with a hybrid schedule.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- at least 3+ years leading engineering teams
- Proven experience building, delivering, and operating production software systems at scale
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for AI/ML-enabled products or platforms
- Strong hands-on experience developing production applications in Python
- Deep understanding of modern AI and machine learning concepts, including large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, and model orchestration frameworks
- Experience integrating AI services using leading LLM providers and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies
- Experience designing cloud-native applications using AWS, Docker, and modern deployment and CI/CD practices
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and distributed application architectures
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, observability, security, code review, and operational excellence
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in Agile development environments using tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Jenkins (or equivalent)
- This role will be based in our New York office, and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in financial technology or regulated industries
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Experience building and scaling AI platforms used across multiple products or business functions
- Experience leading engineering organizations through rapid growth or organizational change
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