# Tech Lead / Engineering Manager at Aurelian

- Company: Aurelian
- What the company does: The AI platform for PSAPs and ECCs. Aurelian supports telecommunicators before, during, and after every call so they can focus on real emergencies. Backed by NEA and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.aurelian.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aurelian/e4fbe991-8735-4a3e-9d95-63a5c39a967f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aurelian-tech-lead-engineering-manager/

## About the role

Lead a small pod. 3-4 engineers in your surface area. Own technical direction and code review. As the team grows, you'll pick up 1:1s, growth plans, and performance work. Stay hands-on. Ship code, review code, debug production issues. You should never get more than a few days away from the codebase.

## What they're looking for

- Leadership spike. 3+ years of software engineering. You've already led on your team - formally or informally. You've mentored other engineers, owned a project that needed coordination across people, or driven a change that didn't have a clear owner
- Wants to grow into management. You want the management path - growing other engineers, running a team, eventually owning a full EM seat
- Strong, capable engineer. You can land in our codebase fast and ship. You read code well, reason about architecture, and care about the craft
- High ownership and pragmatic urgency. You see a problem, figure out the right thing to build, and drive it to completion. You take responsibility for outcomes, not just your code
- Clear communicator. You can explain a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder. You write design docs other people actually read
- Customer empathy. You genuinely like understanding how people use software. You're energized by customer conversations, not drained by them

Tags: Engineering