Engineering Manager

About the Role

Hebbia is an AI platform that provides a competitive edge to investors and bankers by generating alpha and driving upside through AI-driven analysis. Founded in 2020 and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia's flagship product, Matrix, offers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency, trusted to manage over $30 trillion in assets globally. The platform uncovers hidden opportunities and accelerates decisions, transforming how capital is deployed and risk is managed. Engineering Managers at Hebbia are technical leaders who actively build, ship, and lead, writing code, reviewing pull requests, and making architectural decisions. This role is not purely people management but requires strong technical ability. The manager will own a team and a problem space, setting technical direction, unblocking engineers, raising quality standards, and shipping impactful products that directly influence investment decisions. They serve as a strong partner to their product counterparts, driving product initiatives when needed, making product intuition and business understanding as crucial as technical depth. Additionally, the role involves hiring, coaching, and developing the team, with an interview process that reflects this blend of technical, leadership, and management skills. Hebbia is hiring across multiple engineering teams and will match candidates to areas where their background and interests are most impactful.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and delivery for your team. Set roadmap priorities, define architecture, and make tradeoffs between speed and quality.
• Write and review code. You will spend meaningful time in the codebase, not in meetings about the codebase.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers. Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, and build a team that compounds in strength over time.
• Drive operational excellence for the systems your team owns: monitoring, incident response, on-call, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product and design to translate customer problems into technical solutions that ship fast. When your PM is unavailable, you own the product direction for your team.
• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and inform priorities.
• Identify and pay down technical debt. Make pragmatic decisions about when to invest in foundations versus when to move fast.
• Raise the engineering bar across the organization through better tooling, processes, and culture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience at a venture-backed startup or top-tier technology company, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or engineering management role
• You still write code and want to keep writing code. You see management as a way to multiply impact, not a way to stop building.
• Strong systems design and architecture skills. You can design, critique, and evolve complex distributed systems.
• Experience building and scaling backend systems, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure in production
• Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers. You know what good looks like and you can attract it.
• Strong product intuition. You understand what customers need, why it matters to the business, and can make good product decisions independently.
• High ownership and urgency. You take accountability for outcomes, not process.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity. Priorities shift, requirements are underspecified, and you figure it out.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and modern backend technologies (Python, TypeScript, Go)
• Strong communicator. You can create clarity for your team, your stakeholders, and your customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building or leading teams that work with LLMs, agentic systems, or applied AI/ML in production is a plus
• Background in applied research or experience bridging research and production engineering is a plus
• Experience with enterprise customers, particularly in finance, legal, or consulting domains is a plus