Tech Lead Manager, Context

Lead the Context roadmap, partnering with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership on priorities

Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers, including running interview loops, calibrating performance, and setting expectations clearly

Drive technical decisions on hard problems: retrieval quality and how we measure it, graph and memory schemas that survive contact with real customer data, sync architectures that stay correct under partial failure, and an integration framework that makes the tenth connector cheaper to build than the first

Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface, with evals that catch regressions before customers do

Ship code yourself on the highest-leverage parts of the system

Be the engineering point of contact when a customer's integration breaks, their data goes stale, or an agent retrieves the wrong thing

Represent Context in conversations with product, sales engineering, and the executive team when data access, freshness, or security commitments are on the line

Partner closely with the teams building our agent products, who are your primary internal customers

7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team

Strong Python. This is the language the team lives in

Rust is strongly preferred. Parts of this system are performance and cost sensitive enough to justify it, and we expect that surface to grow

Hands-on experience building search or retrieval systems in production: embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, and chunking strategies, along with an honest view of where each one stops helping

Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale, including OAuth, token refresh, rate limits, and the operational reality of connectors that break on someone else's schedule