Engineering Lead - Agents

8090 Solutions is building a Software Factory that orchestrates the end-to-end software development lifecycle and delivers fully managed, hosted software tailored to customer needs. The Engineering Lead will drive the technical direction and execution of the Software Factory agent, remaining hands-on while partnering with product management to deliver dependable customer experiences. The role also involves building and scaling an exceptional engineering team, improving production performance, and ensuring safe agent deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Direction: Own agent architecture across multi-agent orchestration, agent harnesses, prompt and context design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), memory, tools, and execution environments. Lead architecture reviews and make tradeoffs between capability, complexity, latency, and cost
• Prioritization and Execution: Work with product management on agent capabilities and user experience, then own engineering delivery. Translate the shared roadmap into technical plans, milestones, and dependencies; focus the team on the highest-impact work and remove blockers
• Hands-on Engineering: Regularly write and ship production code, lead code reviews, and solve difficult technical problems alongside engineers. Build capabilities for reasoning about code, working across repositories and development tools, and interacting with browsers and computer environments
• Engineering Leadership and Mentorship: Develop engineers' technical judgment, help recruit exceptional talent, and establish effective planning and review practices. Clarify ownership, resolve technical disagreements, and build a team that coordinates well and takes accountability for outcomes
• Production Performance: Make agent behavior observable and debuggable, with reliable recovery and escalation when tasks fail. Use production traces, experiments, and customer feedback to improve task completion, output quality, reliability, latency, and cost. Make progress and tradeoffs visible to leadership
• Safe Deployment: Partner with security and infrastructure engineers on permissions, sandboxing, data boundaries, and controls for deploying and operating agents in production