What You'll Bring
Full-stack technical depth You have built and shipped complex software products. You are comfortable spanning:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, component architecture, performance, and design systems
- Backend: Node.js, Python, API design, service reliability, and data pipelines
- Infrastructure: cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), containerization, CI/CD, observability
- AI/ML integration: LLM-integrated products, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, and production AI systems
Engineering leadership at multiple altitudes You write clean technical specs and compelling architectural proposals. You can sit in a deep-dive code review and then walk into a product strategy conversation. You hire, mentor, and scale processes while staying close to the work. You push back when you disagree — with data, clearly — and you update your view when someone makes a better argument.
Execution under pressure You have shipped at scale under real constraints. You know when to move fast and incur debt, when to hold the line on architecture, and how to bring a team with you either way. You have stories about delivering in environments where the product, the team, and the requirements were all changing at once.
First-principles thinking You start from the problem, not the pattern. When something breaks in production, you trace the root cause. You build your own tools when the right one doesn't exist. You approach ambiguity as a solvable problem, not a reason to wait.
The Bar We're Setting Flux is a fast-moving, high-intensity environment. We need someone who brings technical excellence and the willingness to hold the line in difficult debates, while staying genuinely collaborative. If ambiguity energizes you, if you have operated in cross-functional environments where your peers own things you depend on, and if you have shipped at the level where reliability and quality are non-negotiable — this is the right room for you.
What we’re looking for
- Engineering Leadership: 4+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring, mentorship, performance management, and retaining top talent, with a track record of building high-performing cultures.
- Technical Depth: 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (prior to management) with the ability to review PRs, architect solutions, and credibly engage in technical debates.
- Execution & Delivery: Experience shipping and iterating on complex, customer-facing web applications at scale, under real-world deadlines and resource constraints.
- Product & Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to work directly with product and design to scope and ship features, plus experience influencing VP/C-suite stakeholders to drive alignment on contested decisions.
- AI & Full-Stack Proficiency: Experience building AI-integrated or agentic software products in production, with full-stack comfort across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
- Adaptive Mindset: Thrives in chaos and ambiguity, with a history of building from zero to one in early-stage environments.