Tech Lead, Core Product Engine – Backend

Role Overview

• evolve our current automation systems to a robust, fault-tolerant framework
• handle external interface changes gracefully and scale across dozens of new categories with minimal manual intervention
• report directly to our co-founder/CTO
• lead incremental refactoring of our existing automation systems
• design and implement new standards and pair with engineers to ensure the new system is predictable and testable
• shift towards using an AI-first approach to building the next generation of internal tools

Requirements

• You likely founded a company or were a lead architect at an early stage startup
• You are a builder at heart and like being in the trenches alongside your team
• You are obsessed with success rates
• You love hunting for edge cases in complex business logic and won't stop until you understand exactly why a script failed
• You have a high bar for system design, especially for offline, asynchronous jobs
• You understand that async work requires much stricter standards for decoupling, state management, and failure retry logic than synchronous online systems.

Benefits

• health, dental, and vision coverage
• paid time off
• paid parental leave
• 401(K) plan with employer matching
• wellness benefits, among others
• equity opportunities may also be part of your total rewards package