Founding Engineering Lead

Karbon Digital Limited; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Docufy AI is seeking a Founding Engineering Lead to steer architecture, product execution, and AI platform development. You’ll write code, review architecture, and mentor engineers, then hire and scale the team as the company grows. You’ll balance speed with quality and partner with founders from day one.

Join a startup that builds enterprise AI-powered document intelligence, offering equity and a chance to shape the platform from the ground up with senior leadership exposure.

Qualifications

• Experience building production software at startup speed.
• Led technical architecture decisions and roadmaps.
• Collaborated with founders and cross-functional teams.
• Mentored engineers and scaled engineering teams.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and engineering roadmap.
• Lead development of AI-powered document intelligence products.
• Design scalable cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems.
• Build reliable LLM pipelines, Agentic workflows, RAG, and orchestration services.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and performance.

Skills

Agentic AI systems

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Evaluation frameworks

AI observability

Python

FastAPI

REST APIs

Event-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Redis

Background job processing

AWS & GCP

Docker

Terraform

Monitoring and logging

Security best practices

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Redis

Job description

Docufy AI is an AI-native document intelligence platform transforming how enterprises understand, automate, and manage complex documents. We leverage Large Language Models, agentic AI, retrieval systems, and intelligent workflows to help organizations accelerate operations while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Our founding team has deep experience building enterprise software and AI products. We're backed by experienced operators and are actively scaling our platform, customers, and engineering organization.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Founding Engineering Lead for the technical evolution of Docufy AI.

This is not a traditional management role. You'll be the senior engineering leader responsible for architecture, product execution, AI platform development, and building a world-class engineering organization alongside the founders.

Initially, you'll spend the majority of your time writing code, designing systems, reviewing architecture, and mentoring engineers. Over time, you'll hire and scale the engineering team as the company grows.

What You'll Own

• Own the overall technical architecture and engineering roadmap.
• Lead development of AI-powered document intelligence products.
• Design scalable cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems.
• Build reliable LLM pipelines, Agentic workflows, RAG, and orchestration services.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and performance.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Customer Success.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Establish engineering best practices, development standards, CI/CD, testing, and release processes.
• Support enterprise customer implementations and technical due diligence during fundraising.

Requirements

Technical Experience

• Agentic AI systems
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Evaluation frameworks
• AI observability
• Python
• FastAPI or similar frameworks
• REST APIs
• Event-driven architectures
• Distributed systems
• Redis
• Background job processing
• AWS & GCP
• Docker
• Terraform (nice to have)
• Monitoring and logging
• Security best practices

Leadership Experience

• Built and shipped production software at startup speed.
• Led technical architecture decisions.
• Worked closely with founders.
• Mentored engineers or technical teams.
• Balanced product velocity with engineering quality.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams is highly desirable.

Nice to Have

• Experience with document processing or intelligent automation.
• OCR, search, or knowledge management platforms.
• Financial Services,Legal, Insurance, Retail Industry experience.
• Startup experience from Seed through Series A/B.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 90 days, you'll:

• Become the technical owner of the platform.
• Understand the existing architecture and roadmap.
• Improve engineering velocity and release processes.
• Help define the next-generation AI platform architecture.

Within your first year, you'll:

• Scale the engineering organization.
• Lead technical hiring.
• Improve platform reliability and performance.
• Become a key technical leader for customers, investors, and strategic partners.

Why Join Us?

Founding engineering leadership role.

Significant equity opportunity.

Build cutting-edge AI products from the ground up.

Work alongside experienced founders in AI, cloud, and enterprise technology.

Influence product, technology, and company strategy from day one.

Opportunity to shape the future of enterprise document intelligence.

If you're excited about building AI products, leading engineering, and creating category-defining technology, we'd love to hear from you.

Karbon Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.