Technical Lead Manager

At Instabase, we're working on democratizing access to cutting-edge AI innovation. Our goal is to enable any organisation to solve previously unsolvable unstructured data problems in their industry.

Technical Lead Manager (TLM) , AI Systems & Agents

We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager to lead the engineering team behind our next-generation capability, SuperApp. SuperApp is a natively multimodal, stateful AI assistant and autonomous agent platform.

The Role: Player-Coach Leadership

This is a high-impact, low-bureaucracy role designed for a world-class systems engineer and builder. You will serve as a Player-Coach leading a tight, elite squad of 3 to 5 AI systems engineers.

Your time will be split:

• 60% to 70% Hands-on Engineering: Actively designing multi-turn agent loops, writing production code, building secure sandboxing environments, and architecting systems.
• 30% to 40% Leadership & Mentorship: Recruiting top-tier talent, mentoring engineers, reviewing PRs, and aligning product roadmaps with technical execution.

What You Will Do

• Architect Stateful Agent Loops: Design and implement highly reliable, multi-turn agentic planning and execution state machines capable of self-correction, tool orchestration, and long-context memory persistence.
• Build Secure Execution Sandboxes: Own the runtime execution layer where model-generated code is safely isolated, monitored, and run in real-time without compromising enterprise security boundaries.
• Pioneer Tool Orchestration & MCP: Expand our agent capabilities by designing composable tool-calling integrations using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and custom API interfaces.
• Build Evaluation & Trajectory Testing Harnesses: Establish programmatic frameworks to test if agent loops, tool-calling selections, and error recoveries behave safely and deterministically.
• Scale High-Performance Systems: Work on deep systems problems including latency optimization, semantic caching, speculative execution, and streaming intermediate agent states for a responsive user experience.
• Scale the Team: Bootstrap, hire, and mentor a small, elite, high-velocity team of software and AI engineers.

Our Technical Stack

• Orchestration & Frameworks: LangGraph, LangChain, Go/Python, React, Node, Next.js.
• Infrastructure & Security: Secure sandboxed runtimes (Docker, gVisor, WebAssembly), GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB), Redis, Pub/Sub.
• AI & Models: Integration with advanced reasoning models across custom function-calling, LLM fine-tuning, and hybrid vector-search RAG pipelines.
• Standards: Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool schemas and APIs.

About You

• 8+ Years of Professional Engineering Experience: A strong, proven background in software engineering, with significant tenure building and scaling backend systems, infrastructure, or platform services.
• Active LLM & Agentic Engineering Experience: Practical, hands-on experience building production-grade LLM applications, multi-agent workflows, or tool-calling executors.
• Systems & Infrastructure Rigor: Deep familiarity with building secure sandboxed runtimes, container isolation, API platforms, caching strategies, or high-throughput real-time data streaming.
• Small-Team Leadership Experience: Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers, driving technical design reviews, and leading high-velocity squads as a Tech Lead, TLM, or hands-on EM.
• An Active Builder: You love writing code and are excited about the prospect of coding daily.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $230,000 to $270,000 + bonus, equity, and benefits.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Comprehensive Coverage: Top-notch medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with Matching
• Parental Leave & Fertility Benefits
• Therapy Sessions Covered: 10 free sessions through Samata Health
• Wellness Stipend
• Lunch on Us