Company Overview:

Brighthive is an AI led data process and automation company that is changing the way organizations collaborate with data by giving every team an AI data team. Brighthive’s platform provides an AI-native, governed data workspace where organizations can connect, govern, build, and share data products faster with AI assistance. Brighthive’s platform automates the complex tasks of data governance while ensuring safe, ethical use of structure and unstructured data. 

To accelerate the growth of our platform, Brighthive is seeking a full-time Senior Engineering Manager to lead in building and managing Brighthive’s growing engineering team. 

The Senior Engineering Manager will report to Brighthive’s CEO in strategizing, coordinating, and implementing all aspects of core platform engineering. 

About You: 

• You are a proven and unrelenting engineering professional with a background building and managing engineering teams at growth stage startups. 
• You're an engineer’s engineer. You have a broad knowledge of many programming languages but deep expertise in Python and Javascript. 
• You’ve worked with most of the major public cloud providers but really know your way around AWS. 
• You’re excited about data and the opportunity and engineering challenges that building data-centric products presents. 
• You do not settle for good enough; you are constantly thinking about ways to improve our legal structures and processes and anticipating the needs of individuals, groups, and communities. 
• You are self-motivated, confident in your knowledge and expertise, adaptable, and can find calm in the storm of an early stage startup. 
• You enjoy an intellectual challenge and are determined to find solutions, rather than being deterred or stifled by uncertainty or amorphous problems.
• You are ready to develop and create new, category defining products. 
• You are energized by helping individuals and communities who are historically or institutionally disadvantaged; you look for ways to level the playing field and increase equity and equality of opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Engineering Development. Leading the engineering team in product development, including clarifying acceptance criteria in Jira tickets, supporting engineers in problem solving with tasks and issues, and pitching in on the code base to fill gaps and resolve issues. 
• R&D. Leading research and development of core technologies in the Brighthive stack with the goal of bringing new products
• Delivery. Ensuring timely delivery of planned features and product release and healthy engineering velocity.
• Quality. Setting and keeping a high standard of code quality and software reliability
• Team satisfaction. Ensuring the engineering team is happy, not understaffed or overworked
• Coaching, professional development and training. Helping members of the engineering team map out their individual learning and growth plans.
• Resourcing. Obtaining necessary equipment, cloud services, and software
• Hiring. Recruiting and retaining top-tier engineering talent.
• Cross-team communication. Coordinating the work of engineers with other departments within the organization, including product, sales and marketing, finance and operations, and support engineering
• Reporting to the CEO

Qualifications & Skills:

• Prior experience as an engineering manager, successfully developing and leading engineering teams, or the motivation and desire to apply proven team development and management methods to building Brighthive’s engineering  team
• 5+ years proven success at early stage or growth stage tech companies
• Experience with the following languages: Python, Typescript, Javascript
• Experience with a majority of the following technologies and frameworks: AWS (Lambda, Fargate, Amplify, Cognito), IaC (either CDK or Pulumi), Neo4J, Apollo, React
• Familiarity (could be personal experimentation) with emerging tech in AI Agent development, especially the use of langchain, langgraph, langserve, LLMs with function calling
• Active participation in the broader technology community, through prior contributions to open source projects, tech for good/data for good volunteer initiatives, etc. 
• An entrepreneurial spirit and self-starter that operates effectively in and driven by a fast-paced environment, yet understands the importance of relationships and being a team player
• Ability to present and serve as an ambassador of Brighthive
• Exceptional and respectful communication, engagement, and negotiation skills, including with senior-level decision-makers
• Deeply knowledgeable, but constantly striving to learn more, including new technologies and positioning around them
• Share the Brighthive mission to see society’s disconnected data be responsibly linked and purposefully used as a force for good that increases social equity, efficacy and efficiency.

Where this role fits in the team and who you’ll work with

• You will report to the CEO for key responsibilities like budgeting and hiring.
• You will work closely with product and design teams to ensure good processes, communication, and handoff between product and engineering.