Szns
Engineering Manager
Reston, Virginia, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 86 days ago
GitGCPMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingAgileLeadership
About the role
- We specialize in delivering agentic AI and cloud computing solutions.
- A successful engineering manager should exude the three tenets: Customer obsession: A no-nonsense, fast, and flexible approach where solving the customer's problem always comes first.
- Attentive results: A focus on delivering results through hard work and high quality, recognizing that attention to detail is what separates "great" from "good".
Responsibilities
- Engineering delivery: Own day-to-day engineering delivery across multiple strategic client engagements and internal platform initiatives, ensuring that tasks are clear, prioritized, and progressing.
- Lead, mentor, and grow teams: Building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement while increasing team autonomy, efficiency, and effectiveness.
- Collaborate closely with product and technical leadership to break down, scope, and plan complex technical projects across our AI, GCP, and Web3 domains.
- Identify and maintain high standards: Ensure excellent code quality, system performance, and maintainability by establishing best practices and guiding architectural decisions.
- Own day-to-day engineering delivery across multiple strategic client engagements and internal platform initiatives, ensuring that tasks are clear, prioritized, and progressing.
- Building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement while increasing team autonomy, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Requirements
- Calm and consistent under pressure, with the strong judgment required to balance delivery speed against architectural quality.
Nice to have
- Proactively identify risks and escalate them early, improving team processes so that our delivery becomes faster and more predictable.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with prior experience formally leading developers, managing teams, or owning end-to-end technical delivery.
- Active daily use of AI-enabled coding tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code) to accelerate development workflows and increase throughput.
- Active Google Cloud certifications, or willingness to obtain within one month of joining.
- Curiosity, experimentation with latest technologies, and bias for action.
- U.S. Citizen Preferred Qualifications Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth startups or professional services companies.
- Background in managing teams working on AI/ML pipelines, LLM tooling, or Web3/blockchain integrations.
Skills
- At SZNS, the bar is high.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen Preferred Qualifications Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth startups or professional services companies
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