AI-First Engineering Director (Remote - Lahore)

Pixalate, Inc; Lahore; Remote; PKR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly internet reimbursement

Casual remote work environment

Flexible hours

Advancement opportunities

Job summary

Pixalate, Inc. in Lahore, Pakistan seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Lahore software teams. You will drive AI-first development, using Claude Code agents, define standards, and own delivery, quality, and hiring for the Lahore group.

You will work closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and customer success, staying hands-on with architecture and the toughest problems while shaping the team and coding agents strategy.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; Cambridge O Levels/A Levels considered.
• Hands-on with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and production code; strong design and review skills.

Responsibilities

• Set priorities for Lahore engineering and own delivery from ticket to production.
• Define AI-first development standards and agent-written code reviews and testing.
• Maintain engineering quality: code reviews, QA/UAT gates, release readiness and incident reviews.
• Stay hands-on in architecture for data pipelines, detection logic, APIs and MCP tools.
• Define hiring bars, run technical interviews and onboard new engineers.
• Coach engineers and grow technical leads across the Lahore team.
• Oversee cloud operations on AWS and GCP, including security and cost management.
• Collaborate with product/program managers to scope, estimate and report status.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

AI coding agents

Python

SQL

AWS

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

O Levels / A Levels (Cambridge)

Tools

Claude Code

AWS

GCP

MCP servers

Job description

Pixalate, Inc. in Lahore, Pakistan seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Lahore software teams. You will drive AI-first development, using Claude Code agents, define standards, and own delivery, quality, and hiring for the Lahore group.

You will work closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and customer success, staying hands-on with architecture and the toughest problems while shaping the team and coding agents strategy.