Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product – Thunderbolt

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee engineering execution by defining priorities, responsibilities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality standards.

• Supervise engineers and contractors, focusing on coaching, providing feedback, prioritizing tasks, supporting performance, and fostering team development.

• Engage closely with the codebase by writing code, reviewing technical outputs, assessing tradeoffs, and assisting the team in maintaining momentum and quality.

• Collaborate with technical and product leadership to transform product direction, AI strategy, user experience objectives, and technical priorities into unified engineering plans.

• Implement planning, review, release, and follow-up processes that enhance predictability and minimize bottlenecks.

• Uphold high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, reliability, security awareness, maintainability, and release readiness.

• Develop a robust understanding of product and architectural context across AI-enabled workflows, integrations, local-first or customer-controlled architectures, and release requirements.

• Work in partnership with product, design, enterprise-facing teams, and technical leadership to balance speed, user experience, privacy, quality, enterprise readiness, and long-term sustainability.

• Direct hiring, onboarding, and resource planning as the Thunderbolt engineering team expands.

• Assist Thunderbolt in transitioning from an incubation-stage product to a dependable, enterprise-ready open-source AI solution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of professional software development experience, with considerable background in senior engineering leadership or complex product delivery roles.

• More than 5 years of experience managing technical teams, including senior engineers or senior individual contributors.

• Proven experience leading a team that successfully delivered polished, top-tier products held to high standards of craftsmanship.

• Strong capability to convert ambiguous product and technical directions into clear plans, ownership models, and delivery momentum.

• Technical expertise with AI-enabled products, including the ability to assess tradeoffs in areas such as LLM applications, RAG workflows, agents, enterprise search, automation, on-device AI, or AI evaluation.

• Demonstrated experience delivering complex applications across various platforms, including desktop, web, and mobile, utilizing technologies like Tauri, Electron, React Native, or similar frameworks.

• Experience with enterprise software, regulated environments, or similarly intricate technical products, covering aspects like security, privacy, compliance readiness, administration, integrations, and customer-controlled deployment models.

• Practical knowledge of local-first, offline-capable, self-hosted, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped, or other customer-controlled product architectures, including tradeoffs regarding data storage, synchronization, privacy, reliability, and user experience.

• Experience in enhancing engineering practices related to technical planning, code review, release readiness, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, or management of technical debt.

• Exceptional communication skills concerning technical prioritization, release risk, ownership, quality expectations, and tradeoffs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility

• Company-provided laptop

• Annual bonus program

• Monthly remote work stipend

• Annual professional development stipend

• Access to Coursera learning platform

• Industry conferences

• Company all-hands and team gatherings

• 24 days PTO per year (prorated)

• Your birthday

• Year-end company shutdown

• 9 wellbeing days

• Public holidays

• Other paid leave

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities

• RRSP contributions

• Health, dental, & vision insurance

• Disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Paid parental leave

• Paid sick days