Engineering Manager - Backend
Basis Set Ventures (Basis Set) is an AI-native venture capital fund founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage AI companies, positioning itself as the first capital for founders. The firm backs startups across automated workflows, autonomy, intelligent collaboration, and scalable infrastructure, serving early-stage AI founders and startups as its typical clients.
About Basis Set Ventures
Basis Set Ventures is an AI-native venture fund founded in 2017, built on the science of minds and machines, that recently announced its $250M Fund IV. The firm positions itself as the first institutional capital for founders and provides hands-on, 24/7 'founder concierge' support, acting as its portfolio companies' first customer, sales rep, bug reporter, and recruiter. It invests in AI-first startups spanning categories such as automated workflows, autonomy, intelligent collaboration, and scalable infrastructure, with portfolio companies including Quince, Cusp, Path Robotics, OpenArt, Entire, Tigris Data, Mem0, Vizcom, Simular, and Sakana. Basis Set also publishes original research and perspectives on topics like trucking operations, global customs, maritime transport, real estate, agriculture, and AI agent infrastructure, and runs a Basis Set AI Fellows program for individuals to work on hard problems within the firm and its portfolio companies. Its typical clients are early-stage, AI-native startup founders across a range of industries including consumer, infrastructure, robotics, and enterprise software.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage a group of highly skilled senior engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching, and best practices. You will actively participate in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects, and take responsibility for resource planning, execution, and the quality of software delivered by your group. You will lead your team in building sophisticated products on a cutting-edge technology stack used by retail customers and internal business users. You will work closely with Product Management and other Engineering teams to drive execution of multiple business strategies and technologies. You will act as the point of contact for total cost of ownership, managing production defects and stability improvements to resolution, while ensuring operational efficiency and participating in organizational initiatives to maximize customer value. You will also tailor processes to manage time-sensitive issues to appropriate closure.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 8-10 years of experience
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Java programming and any of the Java frameworks, such as Spring or Spring Boot
- Must have done Performance Appraisal, Hiring and building teams from the ground up
- Experience of working in a highly dynamic Engineering environment like a start-up
- Deep understanding of Object-Oriented programming languages
- Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence
- Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
- Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders
- Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no-touch support, along with SRE principles
Responsibilities
- Manage a group of highly skilled senior engineers by providing technical management, guidance, coaching, best practices and principles
- Actively participate in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects
- Take responsibility for resource planning, execution, and quality of the software delivered by the group
- Lead the group to build sophisticated products using a cutting-edge technology stack
- Work closely with business stakeholders like Product Management and other Engineering teams to drive execution of business strategies and technologies
- Act as a point of contact for total cost of ownership, managing and driving production defects and stability improvements to resolution
- Ensure operational efficiency and actively participate in organizational initiatives to maximize customer value
- Tailor processes to manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to appropriate closure