Technical Lead
Technical Lead driving execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data at an AI-driven consumer platform. Acts as a technical partner to founders and engineering team, turning product goals into plans and solving hard technical problems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data initiatives
- Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans, milestones, owners, and trade-offs
- Dive deep into hard technical problems and help drive them to resolution
- Partner with founders, product, design, and engineering on technical decisions
- Coordinate cross-domain engineering work and remove execution blockers
- Raise the bar for engineering quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability
- Help define hiring needs, role requirements, interview criteria, and technical evaluation standards
- Build internal AI workflows and foster an AI-native engineering culture
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience leading large-scope technical work across multiple engineers, teams, or product areas
- Experience as a Technical Lead, Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, Head of Engineering, CTO, Staff Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Manager
- Strong engineering fundamentals and technical judgment across multiple domains
- Deep familiarity with AI tools and ability to use AI to augment technical execution and decision-making
- Ability to operate under ambiguity and turn unclear goals into executable plans
- Strong communication skills with founders, product managers, designers, and engineers
- Startup-level ownership, urgency, and willingness to dive into details
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with agentic AI systems, LLM workflows, AI agents, or AI-assisted product creation
- Experience with machine learning, recommendation systems, ranking, experimentation, or data pipelines
- Experience building consumer-facing products, mobile products, social platforms, creator tools, or developer tools
- Experience in a VC-backed startup or high-growth technology company
- Experience hiring, interviewing, or defining technical bars for engineering roles
Compensation & Benefits
- Top compensation package, including competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Remote-first team
- Comprehensive health insurance and benefits
Skills
Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter, iOS, Android, Ai Systems, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, Data Pipelines
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