AI Software Engineering Lead

Are you a collaborative Software Engineering Lead looking to work for a mission driven global organization?

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams, including managing performance, career development, and team health
• Established track record of creating high-performing, collaborative team environments and reducing knowledge silos
• Ability to remove blockers, manage priorities, and improve delivery velocity across a team
• Experience establishing scalable team structures and leadership models to support growth
• Deep expertise in designing and delivering distributed systems and APIs at scale
• Ability to define and execute technical strategies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability
• Experience with microservices architecture, API design, and system integration
• Proven ability to identify and eliminate single points of failure and improve system resilience
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows
• Understanding of:
  • LLM integration and orchestration
  • Embeddings and vector search
  • Retrieval pipelines and ranking strategies
• Experience building AI-powered APIs and services for production environments
• Ability to govern and standardize AI patterns, including evaluation, observability, and performance optimization

Responsibilities

• Managing and mentoring of six direct reports.
• Driving and owning the technical strategy and execution for the CK AI Service, including the design and governance of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and API expansion.
• Improving the delivery velocity, reducing bottlenecks and single points of failure, driving standardization, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment as the platform matures
• Establishing a sustainable leadership model to support the planned division and growth of the team.
• Collaborating with our Data Science team to help drive product road map and feature design forward.

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