Engineering Manager, Rasa
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AI platform for virtual assistants
Open for applications
AI platform for virtual assistants
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower the world’s largest brands to interpret people’s needs with open and extensible conversational AI.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, ideally in startup environments
- You are a strong communicator and educator, showing empathy, and coaching others to do the same
- You previously worked as a senior software engineer (preferably Fullstack engineer) on complex, scalable systems and are still confident being hands-on and navigating technical discussions
- You’ve worked in or led prototyping or PoC-heavy environments and are comfortable balancing speed with quality
- You have strong product and business sense, you understand the “why” behind the work and how your team’s output impacts customers and the market
- You are excited about generative AI and large language models (LLMs)
- You want to work at a fast-paced startup and default to action
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a new cross-functional team at Rasa, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering.
- You’ll work closely with a product manager and designer to shape, deliver, and iterate on features that push the boundaries of conversational AI.
- Your mission: grow an empowered, high-performing engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving, remote-first environment
- Own team structure, processes, and ways of working, tailoring them to support speed and quality
- Mentor and coach engineers in their technical and professional development
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and design
- You can motivate others to reach their potential and you are responsible for your team’s ability to ship, holding them accountable while providing continuous feedback
- Champion strong async communication practices and help your team operate autonomously in a remote-first setup
- Actively contribute to improving DEI in hiring, team dynamics, and leadership practices
- You’ll support your team by removing blockers, reviewing PRs, and occasionally contributing features or prototypes yourself. Our tech stack includes Python, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, and extensive use of large language models (LLMs) to build intelligent, scalable, and user-centric applications
- This team has a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Tech Lead, 1 backend engineer, 3 full-stack engineers, 1 ML engineer, 1 QA engineer.
- We currently work in Kanban, value proactive communication, iterative & data-driven product development, prototyping & POCs.
- The focus area of this team for the next 6 months is focusing on first-time user experience (onboarding) on the Rasa Platform. This team has a strategic impact and tightly coordinates with other squads in Rasa
Our take
Rasa is a platform for AI-led personalized conversations. There’s no shortage of competition in this market, with the likes of Google’s Dialogflow and Microsoft’s LUIS, but Rasa has taken a different approach. It moves away from the standard ’this question receives this response’ hard-coded chat bots to a system that uses AI technologies to understand what the customer is saying in context.
Rasa's open source platform has grown a large community which has helped with integrating the system into a wide range of messaging platforms, and in creating extensions to the functionality of the system. This in turn has increased its use and popularity.
While Rasa is coming under increasing pressure from a swarm of chatbot providers powered by ChatGPT and other generative AIs, Rasa has integrated large language models into its own platform. This, combined with recent funding and recognition as a leader in generative conversational AI, puts the company in a very good position going forward.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Jun 2020
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $70.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible work schedules: Flexible schedules, remote opportunities, and the ability to work from home allow teams to balance work with daily life. We truly unplug during time off and require employees to take a minimum of 2 consecutive weeks of paid time off per year
- Opportunities for growth: We encourage you to grow, learn, and push yourself. Employees are empowered to take ownership of their work and receive a yearly budget for professional development
- Stock Options: We believe in our mission and winning together. We invest in employees' futures and make sure everyone has a stake in the company
- Team offsite: We get together twice a year in an exciting location in Europe to plan and set goals as a company. As a distributed company, this is also our chance to have fun and get to know each other face-to-face
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alan Nichol
(Co-Founder & CTO)Alan holds a PhD in Computer Simulation and Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge.
Alex Weidauer
(Co-Founder & CSO)Alex comes from a computer science background and holds a Masters degree in Management and Strategy from LSE.
Melissa Gordon
(CEO)Initially joined Rasa as CRO in 2021 before becoming CEO in 2022. Previously an SVP & GM at Tradeshift and a VP of Worldwide Sales, Customer Success, and Services at SingleStore.
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