Director of Engineering

About Loop:

Why Join Loop?

Founding Engineering Leadership:

High-Impact Role:

Growth Journey:

Cutting-Edge AI:

What You’ll Do:

• Build & Lead: Hire and mentor a world-class engineering team (starting small, but growing fast)
• Ship Fast & Smart: Drive technical execution—design, architecture, and hands-on coding when needed
• Solve Hard Problems: Optimize AI agents, scale infrastructure, and ensure reliability for real-world restaurant operations
• Shape the Future: Influence product strategy and work closely with founders, product, and sales teams
• Drive Innovation: Foster a culture of experimentation—explore AI breakthroughs, automation tech, and smarter ways to solve restaurant challenges
• Build for Scale: Architect resilient systems that grow with us, from early-stage chaos to enterprise reliability
• AI Agent Architecture: Design and oversee our agent orchestration framework, ensuring scalability and reliability
• Fix What’s Broken: When things go wrong (and they will), you’ll dive deep—debugging, optimizing, and leading the team through tough technical fires
• Make It Faster & Smarter: Continuously improve performance, uptime, and scalability—because restaurants can’t afford downtime
  

Who You Are:

• 10+ years engineering experience with 5+ years leading technical teams
• Technical leadership: Hands-on ability to guide architecture reviews and solve complex agent system challenges
• Startup Hustle: You’ve worked at early-stage companies (our size or smaller) and thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments
• Leader, Not Just a Manager: You love mentoring engineers, but you’re still hands-on—no ivory tower leadership here
• Scaler Mindset: You’ve helped grow teams from 5 → 30+ engineers and systems from prototype to production. Grew engineering teams and systems through hypergrowth phases
• AI/ML or Automation Experience (Bonus): You’ve worked on AI agents, automation, or high-scale distributed systems