Engineering Tech Lead

Construction procurement tech startup with embedded financing

🤓 As a Engineer Tech Lead the company expects you to perform the following tasks

• Lead the technical architecture and development of Cru.ai, ensuring the platform is scalable, secure, and highly performant.

• Serve as the technical lead for major initiatives, driving projects from design through deployment while maintaining high engineering standards.

• Build and optimize AI-powered product experiences by integrating LLMs, AI services, and intelligent workflows into customer facing applications.

• Partner closely with Product & Design to transform customer problems into intuitive solutions.

• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural leadership while fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

• Define and champion best practices across software architecture, testing, observability, security, and deployment.

• Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, reduce technical debt, and continuously enhance system reliability.

• Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to better understand workflows and translate feedback into impactful product improvements.

• Participate in hiring and help build a world-class engineering team.

• Lead by example through hands on coding while helping establish the long term technical vision for Cru.ai.

✨ You are the person they are looking for if you have...

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling modern SaaS applications, including experience leading technical initiatives or engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, and modern front-end frameworks.

• Experience building AI enabled products or integrating LLMs and AI services into production applications.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, cloud architecture, and scalable software design.

• Proven ability to architect complex systems while balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability.

• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

• Passion for building exceptional products, writing clean code, and continuously improving engineering practices.