Principal AI Engineer & Tech Lead

Beam; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible working

Work-from-anywhere

Parental leave

Job summary

Beam is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead one of our squads while remaining hands-on in the code. You’ll take ownership of a product area, work with Product to turn an unclear problem into something the team can build, and guide it through release and beyond.

You’ll make important technical decisions, take on difficult work yourself, and help the engineers around you grow into greater ownership. The work includes building AI agents that customers can rely on.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software, including experience leading engineers as a tech lead or manager.
• Hands-on engineer who still writes code and enjoys solving difficult problems.
• Experience across backend services, APIs, databases and user-facing products.
• Experience shipping LLM or agent features to customers and improving them based on production behavior.
• Sound judgment about architecture, reliability and when a simpler solution is enough.
• Experience helping engineers grow and taking responsibility for a team’s output.
• Practical use of AI coding tools, with a clear sense of where they help and where human judgment matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and own the delivery and quality of your product area.
• Design and build across the stack, taking on the technical problems where your judgment matters most.
• Work with Product to shape solutions, make trade-offs and ship useful work.
• Build and improve AI-agent capabilities that operate reliably in real customer workflows.
• Set a strong bar for testing, evaluation, observability and production ownership.
• Coach engineers through code reviews, feedback and day-to-day decisions.
• Use AI coding tools in your own work and help the team use them effectively.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

LLM features

Backend services

APIs

Databases

AI tooling usage

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

React/Next.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Beam is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead one of our squads while remaining hands-on in the code. You’ll take ownership of a product area, work with Product to turn an unclear problem into something the team can build, and guide it through release and beyond.

You’ll make important technical decisions, take on difficult work yourself, and help the engineers around you grow into greater ownership. The work includes building AI agents that customers can rely on.