Tenex · 3 days ago
Engineering Manager
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$400K/yr - $800K/yrTenex Engineering is an ai-powered software development agency focused on delivering high-quality engineering outcomes. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading a pod of engineers, ensuring quality and speed in delivery, and driving AI-assisted development while also writing production code and coaching team members.
Management Consulting
Responsibilities
Own engineering outcomes for your pod
Be accountable for speed, quality, and delivery predictability across all client work in your pod
Ensure scopes are clean, estimates are real, risks surface early, and deadlines mean something
Step in decisively when things get messy: unclear requirements, broken releases, fragile systems
Write production code (this is a player–coach role)
Ship code weekly across client and internal codebases, especially on architecture, foundations, refactors, and high-risk integrations
Set the quality bar by example: readable, scalable, testable, pragmatic code
Know the codebases deeply — not just tickets and dashboards
Set and enforce Tenex engineering standards
Define and maintain standards that keep quality high as we scale:
Repo structure and architecture conventions
PR hygiene and review expectations
Testing, observability, and reliability baselines
Deployment and rollback patterns
Build lightweight processes that enable great engineers instead of slowing them down
Drive AI-first execution
Push AI-assisted development across the pod: coding, debugging, testing, refactoring
Establish tooling and workflows that materially reduce cycle time
Build or extend internal tools that give Tenex a real execution edge
Be client-facing when it matters
Join key technical reviews and client conversations to build trust and show extra force
Translate technical decisions into business impact
Partner closely with strategists so engineering stays aligned with ROI and expectations
Lead and grow engineers
Run 1:1s, give direct feedback, and coach engineers to higher standards
Create clarity around ownership, expectations, and growth paths
Hire and onboard elite engineers who raise the bar
Qualification
Required
Elite engineering chops. You ship elegant, scalable code and can simplify hard problems
Player–coach mindset. You want to write code and want to lead people
Client-maximizing instincts. You care about outcomes, trust, and proactive communication, not just 'tickets closed.'
AI-first execution. You actively use AI tools to multiply your output and you teach others to do the same
High ownership. You don't need a playbook to act, you create the playbook
Direct communicator. You say the thing clearly and respectfully, early
Preferred
Experience leading teams, projects, and outcomes (tech lead, EM, principal engineer who mentored heavily, CTO)
Experience shipping across multiple stacks quickly (backend + frontend + integrations)
Consulting / agency / forward-deployed experience (fast context switching, high client exposure)
Strong product sense: you can spot what matters and cut scope intelligently
Experience building internal engineering tooling (CI, DX improvements, eval frameworks, agentic workflows)
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision provided
Take what you need vacation policy
Company
Tenex
This AI thing, it’s real. As real as mobile, the internet, and each of the major paradigm shifts in technology that came before it.
Founded in 2025
11-50 employees
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