Technical Lead, Applications
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop services. Lead and grow a small, senior applications team while making critical architectural decisions for AI-powered product workflows and client integrations. Ensure production-grade reliability through observability, monitoring, retries, and graceful failure modes, balancing speed with long-term system quality. Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capabilities into shippable features with predictable behavior. Establish a strong execution culture via code and design reviews, driving measurable improvements in latency, cost, and user experience across the platform.
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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