sekai - Technical Lead
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Experience leading large-scope technical work across multiple engineers, teams, or product areas • Experience as a 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 and ability to use AI to augment technical execution and decision-making • Ability to operate under ambiguity and turn unclear goals into executable plans • Strong communication skills with founders, product managers, designers, and engineers • Startup-level ownership, urgency, and willingness to dive into details • 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 • Experience building consumer-facing products, mobile products, social platforms, creator tools, or developer tools • Experience in a VC-backed startup or high-growth technology company • Experience hiring, interviewing, or defining technical bars for engineering roles
Responsibilities
• Lead technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data initiatives • Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans, milestones, owners, and trade-offs • Dive deep into hard technical problems and help drive them to resolution • Partner with founders, product, design, and engineering on technical decisions • Coordinate cross-domain engineering work and remove execution blockers • Raise the bar for engineering quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability • Help define hiring needs, role requirements, interview criteria, and technical evaluation standards • Build internal AI workflows and foster an AI-native engineering culture
Benefits
• Top compensation package, including competitive salary and meaningful equity • Remote-first team • Comprehensive health insurance and benefits • If you are excited about building at the frontier of AI, consumer social, and interactive entertainment, we would love to hear from you. • At Sekai, you will work with an AI-native team, move fast, own meaningful problems, and have the flexibility to explore new ideas from an early stage.
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