Lead Engineer - AI-Native Email App
Remote
RemoteFull TimeSenior LevelStartup
Full TimeSenior LevelStartup
Job Summary
Design scalable backend, frontend, and infrastructure systems while writing, reviewing, and debugging production code. Lead technical decisions on architecture and trade-offs, breaking ambiguous problems into clear execution plans. Mentor engineers, improve tooling and automation to boost team velocity, and own system reliability by monitoring production and resolving incidents. Collaborate with product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality features from idea to release.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure
- Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers
- Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems
- Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production
- Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required
- English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
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