What you'll be doing
- Shaping technical strategy and architecture, including how AI and ML systems are built and scaled
- Defining how engineering teams work together through clear charters, decision-making and planning
- Setting and upholding high engineering standards across agile delivery, testing, security and documentation
- Leading reliability practices including on-call design, SLIs, incident reviews and continuous improvement
- Partnering with Product to refine requirements and ensure technical feasibility
- Mentoring and developing engineers, building a culture of clarity, accountability and high performance
- Collaborating with the executive team and bringing technical insight to broader company strategy
What we're looking for
- Experienced contract engineering leader with 6+ years leading multiple teams in product-driven environments
- Strong technical background in cloud and distributed systems (JVM languages such as Java, Scala or Kotlin a bonus)
- Proven experience integrating AI/ML into live systems with measurable business outcomes
- Excellent architectural judgement and a pragmatic approach to scaling systems and teams
- Comfortable communicating trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Immediately available or on short notice