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LightSource

Software Engineering TLM

San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$160K – $250K a year
Posted
2 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $250K a year, is 3% below the median of $259K for engineering jobs in San Francisco (middle half $215K – $315K, 4,022 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About the role

Supply chain is broken. It's the foundation of our entire economy, but it (barely) runs on a mix of home-brewed processes duct-taped to some spreadsheets and emails.

As a Tech Lead Manager at LightSource, you'll be expected to wear many hats. You will be in charge of a team of senior engineers and responsible for your own work as an individual contributor.

As a manager, you'll be coordinating resources, driving planning and execution, and promoting technical excellence throughout the org.

This is a full-time, onsite role at our office in downtown San Francisco (off Market St, steps from BART and Caltrain

Responsibilities

Planning and Execution

  • Ensure that work is aligned with business objectives and product goals
  • Build execution plans meeting resource constraints
  • Drive delivery of work against objectives
  • Manage risks, problem-solve, and course correct as necessary. Resolve technical conflicts that arise

Technical Excellence

  • Guide technical work through direct, hands-on, management as needed
  • Adhere to and enforce team quality, security, and consistent development standards
  • Assess technical output of the team against KPIs
  • Maintain awareness of advancements in the domain and incorporate them into the team

Communication, Collaboration, and Culture

  • Identify, report, and rectify any perceived problems or organizational risks
  • Maintain and elevate the existing company culture across your team

People and Organization

  • Create a psychologically safe environment and provide support and motivation to the team
  • Proactively check in with team members to ensure that their performance is good and their needs are met
  • Manage performance within the direct team and set a high-performance bar with guardrails
  • Proactively resolve interpersonal conflicts within the team

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software development
  • 3+ years of people management experience in a startup environment
  • Track record of successfully shipping products

The Team

We're a driven team, who've helped build some incredible companies (Tesla, Waymo, Google, Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, Airbnb and many more). And now we're tackling an exciting problem space ripe for disruption.

Our team is small, but our ambitions are big. So we only hire the absolute best and try to learn every day while having a lot of fun.

Source

Posted by LightSource on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:14 UTC; the original is the reference.

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