Bjak - Technical Lead, Applications
Requirements
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production. • Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs. • Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows. • Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one. • Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity. • A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage. • Move fast without breaking fundamentals • Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load. • Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience. • Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably. • Latency and reliability improve measurably over time. • The best products today in the world were built by small, world class teams. We are a high talent density and hands-on team. We make decisions collectively, move at rapid speed, striking a balance between shipping high quality work and learning. Joining our team requires the ability to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently. Our goal is to put in hands of our users a truly magical product
Responsibilities
• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers. • Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations. • Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes. • Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features. • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience. • Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership. • Ensure production readiness with observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls. • Balance speed of delivery with discipline to maintain long-term system quality without compromising on shipping quickly.
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