Technical Lead, Applications
RemoteSingapore
SingaporeRemoteFull TimeSenior LevelStartup
Full TimeSenior LevelStartup
Job Summary
Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop, leading a small senior team to design and evolve core architecture. Drive production-grade reliability through observability, monitoring, retries, and failure handling while partnering with Machine Learning leadership to integrate AI capabilities into shippable features. Make high-impact decisions balancing latency, cost, security, and user experience, ensuring systems remain fast and coherent as they scale. Establish a strong execution culture via code and design reviews, moving quickly without compromising long-term system quality.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems
- Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production
- Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs
- Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows
- Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one
- Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity
- A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage
- The ability to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently
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