Sekai
Technical Lead
San Francisco, USA · Full-time · Posted May 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience; leadership experience across multiple engineers, teams, or product areas.
About the job
Leads technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data, turning product goals into plans and resolving engineering challenges.
What you'll do
- Lead technical initiatives, coordinate cross-domain work, and remove execution blockers.
- Translate ambiguous goals into technical plans, milestones, owners, and trade-offs; partner with founders and product, design, and engineering teams.
- Raise engineering quality and reliability, help define hiring standards, and build internal AI workflows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience leading large-scope technical work across multiple engineers, teams, or product areas.
- Experience in a technical leadership role such as Technical Lead, Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, Head of Engineering, CTO, Staff Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Manager.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and technical judgment across multiple domains; deep familiarity with AI tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with agentic AI systems, LLM workflows, AI agents, or AI-assisted product creation.
- Experience with machine learning, recommendation systems, ranking, experimentation, or data pipelines.
Tools
Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter
AI focus
Use AI tools to augment technical execution and decision-making, build internal AI workflows, and foster an AI-native engineering culture.
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