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About the Role

Join fabric as a hands-on Product & Engineering Leader to own the end-to-end building lifecycle in an AI Commerce-powered shopping experience. This is a player-coach role reporting to the CEO, focused on influencing architecture, writing code, and building proofs of concept for a lean, high-output team. Your impact will be measured by customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a quickly scaling team including engineering managers and senior ICs
• Partner with the CEO to set product, design & technical direction and translate strategy into crisp execution
• Foster a high-trust, high-ownership culture where engineers are empowered to move quickly, take initiative and own outcomes
• Hire and develop top engineering and AI talent as the team scales; build a team that is curious, customer-aware and impact driven
• Implement and execute a scaled, AI-first engineering process
• Foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and continuous improvement
• Be deeply engaged at the architecture and design level
• Design agentic harness, core systems and data flows underpinning the platform
• Build proofs of concept (POCs) for new AI-driven capabilities and product ideas
• Write and review critical code paths and designs; hold a high bar for quality, scalability, and maintainability
• Guide backend development in Java, Node.js and/or Python; set direction for production-grade frontend experiences using JavaScript, React and TypeScript
• Design Agentic SDLC in partnership with the Head of Platform Engineering
• Own both engineering and product execution in close partnership with the CEO
• Translate product vision into technical roadmaps and clear engineering milestones tied to customer outcomes
• Be a customer-facing leader - engage directly with merchants and partners to understand pain points, validate solutions, and ensure what the team ships delivers real value
• Drive delivery, reliability, security, and scalability of production systems
• Lead development and deployment of cloud-native systems on AWS
• Provide technical oversight across Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable delivery

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in product engineering, data products, architecture and hands-on development
• Proven early stage experience leading engineering teams as a Director, Head of Engineering, or equivalent—at 0-1 scale where you were also a key technical contributor
• A track record of building and shipping production-grade B2B SaaS products, ideally with a clear line from your technical decisions to customer outcomes.
• Experience thriving in early-stage or high-growth startup environments; comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Experience owning or co-owning product as well as engineering—you think in outcomes, not just outputs
• Executive presence: Monthly board meeting updates to ensure the board is up-to-date on the technical roadmap and product development.
• Comfortable switching between big-picture strategy and ground-level execution within the same week
• Customer- facing presence. You engage with merchants, partners and externals stakeholders with confidence and empathy
• Strong communicator who can align cross-functional stakeholders and keep a small team focused and unblocked
• You have high standards for engineering quality—you drive this through design reviews, code reviews, and direct collaboration, not just process
• Prior experience in commerce, retail technology or commerce platforms (Nice to have)

Skills

• Java
• Node.js
• Python
• JavaScript
• React
• TypeScript
• REST API’s
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• event-driven systems
• distributed systems
• scalability tradeoffs
• long-term system health
• AI-native products
• Agentic platforms
• LLMs
• automation

Experience Level

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven early stage experience leading engineering teams

About the Company

• fabric is building the Agentic Commerce Infrastructure to help merchants grow, sell, and operate in today’s AI Commerce-powered shopping experience.
• Backed by top-tier investors and led by industry and AI veterans, our team is building foundational technology at the intersection of AI, commerce, and great user experience.
• We move fast, experiment often, and ship production-grade software that powers real businesses.