🚀 Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social - backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. Our goal is to create social products that we use, that our friends use, and that have the potential to reach billions of people. Clubhouse was our first app, and we've been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. We have years of runway, millions of users, and find ourselves at a very interesting time, where AI is making entirely new things possible with voice. We are a remote-friendly company - with a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work here and thrive without having to live near an office. This role is open to candidates across the U.S. If you are a talented builder who's interested in joining us, we'd love to talk. As a leader on the engineering team, you'll work closely with our founders, product, data, and data licensing teams to turn a complex technical surface into robust systems and a clear, sequenced roadmap. You'll own the people, delivery, and direction for the teams that build the backend, infrastructure, and intelligence layer the rest of the product depends on, and you'll partner with a platform lead on the technical direction. This is a player-coach role: you will not be expected to code daily, but you will be in the design conversations and sequencing the work by complexity and impact.

Responsibilities

• You'll partner on technical excellence and raise leverage. You'll work hand in hand with a platform lead who owns backend technical standards, own incident process and developer-experience improvements, and lead the changes needed to enable AI-assisted development across the platform.
• You'll lead and define technical strategy and roadmaps. You'll work closely with your team and cross-functional stakeholders such as product, finance, and trust & safety to identify, drive, and execute against high impact opportunities such as cost efficiency, performance, and user safety.
• You'll grow, teach, and improve rapidly. At Clubhouse you'll be working with an incredible team, who love to learn from and teach each other. You'll find yourself stretching to new areas, immersed in feedback, and growing your skills on a daily basis.
• You'll create something meaningful. Social products allow people to c

Requirements

• You are AI-fluent. You are proficient with modern AI tooling and can reason about the changes a codebase and a process need in order to enable AI-assisted development.
• You're a strong communicator. You're a strong written and verbal communicator; you can capture the essence of complex situations quickly and communicate them to technical and non-technical partners.
• You're scrappy and entrepreneurial. You like to ship and have a bias towards getting things done. You prioritize by complexity and ROI, thrive in fast paced environments, and view ambiguity as an opportunity to lead Clubhouse closer to its mission.
• You are a team player. You have a low-ego, put the team's success first, and believe that fostering a collaborative and diverse environment is not only integral to the team's well-being but also crucial for driving innovation and achieving long-term success.

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