[Hiring] Staff Engineer AI/ML @AnswersNow Inc

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who knows that great engineering leadership is about growing people, removing obstacles, and making the team better — not writing the most code. You'll manage a team of Engineering Team Leads, each of whom runs a squad of full-stack engineers. You own the health of the engineering organization: hiring, performance, culture, delivery, and the processes that keep everything running. This is a player-coach role in spirit — you should be technically credible and able to engage meaningfully in architecture discussions — but your primary output is team output, not individual code.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role
• Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment
• Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres
• Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS
• Track record of technical mentorship
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus
• Significant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems

Requirements

• Experience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling) - Nice to have
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines - Nice to have
• Prior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track - Nice to have
• Contributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks - Nice to have

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership
  • Own and evolve the architecture of our core platform
  • Drive our JavaScript → TypeScript migration
  • Design and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework
  • Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs)
  • Identify and resolve systemic technical debt
  • Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models
• Engineering Culture & Mentorship
  • Mentor engineers across all levels
  • Establish and maintain engineering standards
  • Serve as a technical resource and thought partner for stakeholders
  • Help define the engineering hiring bar and participate in the interview process
• Delivery & Operations
  • Partner with engineering leadership and product to scope, sequence, and de-risk large technical initiatives
  • Lead by example on production support
  • Work across UI, API, DB, and infrastructure layers

Benefits

• $151,000- $178,500 annual salary
• Fully remote – work from anywhere in the U.S.
• Flexible hours with an async-friendly team culture