Member of Technical Staff, Lead

The role

A Tech Lead Manager will own technical vision and execution for core engineering teams. You will build products that ingest social data, run AI agents, and deliver insights through analytics and automation.

What you will do

• Define technical roadmap, system design, and architectural standards
• Write production code and conduct code reviews
• Partner with Product and Design to evaluate feasibility and scope features
• Coach and mentor engineers through pair programming and architecture reviews
• Participate in customer calls to build technical intuition
• Drive technical excellence in RFC processes, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate engineering talent
• Manage a team of 2-5 including 1:1s, performance reviews, and career planning

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of total software engineering experience
• 2+ years formally managing direct reports on a high-performing engineering team
• Strong architectural intuition and hands-on proficiency across the full stack
• Strong product acumen
• Experience working alongside Product Managers and Product Designers
• Comfort operating in high-growth, ambiguous environments
• Exceptional, direct written and verbal communication skills
• Active hands-on experience or deep technical interest in incorporating LLMs, AI agents, and modern AI workflows into software architecture

Nice to have

• Prior experience working at an early or growth-stage startup
• Hands-on experience architecting, deploying, or operating AI-powered or agentic software platforms at scale
• Hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, or Turbopuffer
• Technical leadership on teams shipping mobile products, ideally using React Native

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity
• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• 401(k) match
• ClassPass membership for fitness and wellness classes
• $1,000/month housing stipend for living near the office
• $50/month mobile stipend
• Commuter benefits (train stipend or Palo Alto parking reimbursement)
• Free lunch in the office
• Clear career growth opportunities

About the company

Nectar is building an AI-native social operating system for commerce. Founded by ex-Meta product and engineering leaders, they have raised over $30M in total capital.