Engineering Director - AI-First, Remote Lead

Pixalate, Inc; Lahore; Remote; PKR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly Internet Reimbursement

Casual, Remote Work Environment

Flexible Hours

Advancement opportunities

Job summary

Pixalate, Inc. seeks a Director of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan to lead the entire Lahore engineering team. You will guide data pipelines, AI-driven fraud-detection systems, analytics, and platform tooling, setting standards for agent-written code and production readiness.

You will stay hands-on in architecture and delivery, owning quality, incident response, and cloud operations across AWS and GCP. The role requires hands-on leadership and close collaboration with product and PMs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• Cambridge O Levels or A Levels, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Hands-on experience shipping production code with AI coding agents such as Claude Code.
• Track record delivering data-intensive or backend systems in production, with Python and SQL or Java, on AWS or GCP.
• Experience owning production reliability: on-call, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Experience hiring, developing and, when needed, managing engineers.
• Architectural depth: you can critique a design and write the code yourself.

Responsibilities

• Lead Lahore engineering across products: set priorities, sequence work and own delivery from ticket to production.
• Lead the AI-first way of working: define how engineers use Claude Code agents, skills and MCP tools, and the specification, testing and review standards that agent-written code must meet.
• Own engineering quality: code review, QA and UAT gates, release readiness, and the response when production breaks.
• Stay hands-on in architecture: review designs for data pipelines, detection logic, APIs and MCP tools, and step into the hardest problems yourself.
• Set and hold the hiring bar: define roles, run technical interviews, and onboard new engineers so they ship in their first weeks.
• Coach and develop engineers: set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and grow technical leads.
• Oversee the shared coding-agent platform and cloud operations on AWS and GCP, including access, security and cost.
• Work with product and program management to scope, estimate and sequence work, and report status, risks and slips to engineering leadership in clear written updates.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Python

SQL

AWS

GCP

AI coding agents

Data pipelines

Backend systems

Incident response

Hiring

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Cambridge O Levels / A Levels

Tools

Claude Code

BigQuery

AWS

GCP

Job description

Pixalate, Inc. seeks a Director of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan to lead the entire Lahore engineering team. You will guide data pipelines, AI-driven fraud-detection systems, analytics, and platform tooling, setting standards for agent-written code and production readiness.

You will stay hands-on in architecture and delivery, owning quality, incident response, and cloud operations across AWS and GCP. The role requires hands-on leadership and close collaboration with product and PMs.