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About the Role

As the Technical Lead, Applications, you will own the core application architecture connecting AI systems to user experiences. This hands-on leadership role involves designing, ensuring reliability, and evolving backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop, while staying close to the code and making critical architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
• Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
• Partner closely with Machine Learning (ML) leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
• Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
• Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
• Balance speed and discipline, shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience delivering Artificial Intelligence (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.
• Move fast without breaking fundamentals.

Skills

• AI
• APIs
• Artificial Intelligence
• Backend
• Desktops
• Mobile
• Product Engineering

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Work From Home
• Remote

Salary/Compensations

• USD 180000 - USD 200000 - yearly

Benefits

• medical insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Savings Plan Options
• PTO

About the Company

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