Software Engineering Manager

Ternary Inc.

Engineering Manager leading a full stack team at Ternary, an intelligence platform for cloud and AI spending optimization. Focusing on team growth, product delivery, and technical leadership.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryGoJavaScriptNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a full stack engineering team: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
Remain hands-on — actively contributing to architecture, design reviews, and code; you set the technical bar by example.
Own end-to-end delivery of major product and platform initiatives: planning, design, implementation, deployment, and production performance.
Drive architectural decisions that determine how the platform scales to serve enterprise finance and engineering buyers.
Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer needs and business requirements into executable engineering plans.
Define and enforce engineering best practices: code quality, testing standards, CI/CD, documentation, and incident response.
Make informed tradeoffs between tactical execution and long-term technical strategy, surfacing risks and options clearly to stakeholders.
Uplift the team through structured feedback, regular 1:1s, and a culture of high ownership and psychological safety.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time building full stack web applications and data-intensive platforms.
2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead manager role, with a track record of shipping complex projects through a team.
Strong full stack technical depth: you are comfortable contributing to React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js or Go backend services, and BigQuery or large-scale data warehousing.
Demonstrated product sense — you make engineering decisions in the context of customer value and business outcomes, not just technical elegance.
Proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments: you identify the problem, align stakeholders, and move to execution without waiting for perfect information.
Strong communicator across levels — engineering team, cross-functional peers, and senior leadership.
Experience at both high-growth startups and mature engineering organizations is a strong signal.
Actively uses AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, LLM-assisted workflows) to accelerate engineering delivery — and expects and enables your team to do the same. Strong preference.
Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features: LLM integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agent workflows. Strong plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year.
We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).
Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).
The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.

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Hard Skills & Tools

full stack web applicationsdata-intensive platformsReactTypeScriptNode.jsGoBigQuerylarge-scale data warehousingAI-powered product featuresprompt engineering

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringperformance managementcareer developmentcommunicationproblem identificationstakeholder alignmentexecution in ambiguitystructured feedbackpsychological safety