# Technical Lead Manager

**Company**: Instabase
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,000 to $270,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- Go
- Python
- React
- Node
- Next.js
- Docker
- gVisor
- WebAssembly
- GCP
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Cloud SQL
- PostgreSQL
- TimescaleDB
- Redis
- Pub/Sub
- GPT-4o
- o3
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- DeepSeek

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