Tech Manager
Posted 2 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Tech Lead Manager - Autonomous Connectors”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
What we are building
We are building an AI system that creates data connectors by itself and keeps them working by itself.
No engineer should need to manually build every connector. No engineer should need to come back six months later because the source API changed.
Work that traditionally takes weeks or months should take hours. But building a connector is not the hardest part.
The real question is: Would you trust this system to run by itself, with nobody watching, for months?
That is the job.
The Problem
Every data company has the same problem. There is always another source a customer wants that you do not support.
Today, supporting that source means an engineer has to understand the API, implement authentication, pagination, schema handling and incremental syncs, test the connector, deploy it and maintain it indefinitely.
We want an agent to do most of this autonomously.
It needs to understand API documentation, generate connector logic, validate the data and deploy the connector.
Then the harder part starts.
APIs change. Schemas evolve. Authentication breaks. Rate limits change. Fields disappear. New failure modes appear in production.
The system needs to detect those changes, understand what happened, decide whether it can safely repair the connector, validate the fix and know when to ask a human for help.
“The AI built it” is not good enough. The connector has to be correct.
If a connector silently produces bad data, a customer dashboard may be wrong and someone may make a bad decision based on it.
Your job is to make autonomous connectors trustworthy.
Your Role
- You will lead a team of 4 to 6 engineers while continuing to be deeply technical.
- Roughly 60 percent of your time will remain hands on. That includes architecture, design, coding, debugging, evaluations, code reviews and production issues.
- This is not a people management role with occasional coding.
- You will own a major part of the Connector Builder Agent, along with parts of our existing connector platform and database connector infrastructure.
- Other teams will own other parts of the system. You will work closely with them.
- Exactly what you own will depend on your strengths and what the team needs when you join. We would rather build the role around a strong engineer than put someone into a fixed box.
What you will work on
The central problem is deciding what the system can safely do by itself and where it needs human intervention.
You will work on problems such as understanding API documentation automatically, inferring authentication and pagination, discovering schemas, handling schema evolution, generating connector code, detecting API changes, repairing failures, scoring confidence and building evaluation systems that tell us whether an autonomous action was actually correct.