Hex
Engineering Lead
$221K–$295K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years as a full-stack software engineer; 2+ years leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms.
About the job
Leads the team building Hex’s AI context platform, setting technical direction while managing and contributing to engineering work.
What you'll do
- Lead the context platform team and drive its technical strategy, design reviews, and hands-on development.
- Manage, develop, and empower engineers on the team.
- Recruit engineering talent.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer.
- 2+ years leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms.
- Proven people-management experience building and operating product engineering teams.
- Strong technical leadership, including designing abstractions and setting technical standards.
Nice to have
- Deep curiosity about and intuition for state-of-the-art AI agent behavior and context systems.
Pay
$221,000-$295,000 USD base salary
AI focus
Lead development of an AI context platform, including work related to agent reasoning failures, business context, human-in-the-loop systems, autonomous improvement, and integration with AI-powered tools and workflows.
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