Technical Lead, Applications (Founding Team)

Type of employment: Permanent, Full-time
Work model: Fully remote (United States or Canada)
Ideal experience: Technical Leadership, Backend Engineering, AI Applications

Why join this opportunity?

Our client is an early-stage, well-funded AI startup building a next-generation consumer AI platform designed to help people automate everyday tasks, workflows, and errands through intelligent, real-world task execution.

This is a rare opportunity to join as a founding engineer and help shape both the product and the engineering foundation from the very beginning. You'll work alongside an experienced leadership team in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where ownership, curiosity, and execution are highly valued.

What you'll do

Lead the design and evolution of the core application architecture powering AI experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
Design scalable backend services, APIs, and client integrations for production AI systems.
Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.
Partner closely with machine learning engineers to translate AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready features.
Drive engineering excellence across scalability, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.
Build and maintain highly observable systems with robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
Make thoughtful architectural decisions that balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience.
Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

Significant experience building and leading application or product engineering for complex software systems.
Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering production backend systems.
Experience developing AI-powered products and integrating machine learning capabilities into production applications.
Strong system design skills across distributed services, APIs, and application architecture.
Ability to work across backend, mobile, and desktop environments, with deep expertise in at least one area.
Proven technical leadership experience guiding engineering teams and influencing architectural direction.
Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
A builder's mindset with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for shipping high-quality software.

Why this role?

Founding technical leadership opportunity at a well-funded AI startup.
Help build a consumer AI product from zero to scale.
Play a key role in shaping the company's application architecture and engineering standards.
Fully remote across the United States and Canada.
Small, high-calibre engineering team with direct access to leadership.
High-trust, flexible work environment.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
401(k) with employer match (U.S.).
Visa sponsorship available where applicable.
Opportunity to influence the product, architecture, and technical direction from day one.