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Head of Engineering – Agentic AI Startup

3 years

0 Lacs

India

Posted:4 weeks ago| Platform: Linkedin logo

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Remote

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

About Us


What You’ll Do


  • Own the end-to-end engineering strategy: platform, infrastructure, reliability, and scale.
  • Design and evolve our agentic AI systems.
  • Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary rockstar team across backend, frontend, and full-stack engineers.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and GTM Leads to prioritize impactful roadmap items.
  • Drive best practices in engineering: code quality, testing, cloud-native architecture, security, compliance (SOC2/ISO), and Agile processes.
  • Ensure our platform scales across cloud infrastructure and microservices.
  • Recruit top-tier engineering talent to support rapid product expansion and new feature development.
  • Maintain uptime, performance, and security for a SaaS platform trusted by enterprises worldwide.


You Have:


  • 10+ years in engineering roles with 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams in SaaS or AI-driven startups.
  • Proven success in building and scaling complex, distributed systems in cloud environments.
  • Strong background in backend architectures, microservices, APIs, and integrations (e.g., Salesforce, Slack).
  • Hands-on experience with ML/AI systems, including LLM/applications, prompt design.
  • Familiarity with security and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, data encryption).
  • Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, observability, and reliability engineering.
  • Excellent partner-oriented mindset—strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • A proactive, mission-driven, ownership-first attitude suited to high-growth startups.


Bonus Points:


  • Previous role in a funded startup scaling engineering from early-stage to high-growth.
  • Experience managing a fully remote engineering team.


Why Join?

  • Impact:

    Build cutting-edge agentic AI systems used by large enterprises across US and EU.

  • Growth:

    Shape culture, processes, and hiring in a pivotal leadership role.

  • Equity:

    Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership.

  • Innovation:

    Work with cutting-edge agentic AI across sales intelligence workflows.

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