Remote Director of Engineering — AI-First Data & Cloud

Pixalate; Lahore; Remote; PKR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly Internet Reimbursement

Casual Remote Work Environment

Flexible Hours

Advancement opportunities

Team events

Job summary

Pixalate is hiring a Director of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan to lead all of our Lahore engineering. The team builds data pipelines, fraud detection logic, analytics and AI agents behind Pixalate's ad fraud, Connected TV and mobile products.

The scope is the whole Lahore team, not one product: MRT pipeline, MRT and Analytics MCP, ad fraud detection, creative intelligence, and shared coding agents and cloud operations that every team depends on.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Cambridge O Levels or A Levels, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Hands-on shipping production code with AI coding agents such as Claude Code.
• Track record delivering data-intensive or backend systems in production with Python/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: critique a design and write code when it matters.
• Comfortable across time zones with overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead Lahore engineering across products: set priorities, sequence work and own delivery from ticket to production.
• Define AI-first engineering practices: Claude Code agents, MCP tools and standards for agent-written code.
• Own engineering quality: code reviews, QA/UA T gates, release readiness and incident follow-ups.
• Stay hands-on in architecture: review data pipelines, detection logic and APIs.
• Set hiring bar: define roles, run technical interviews and onboard engineers.
• Coach engineers: provide feedback and grow technical leads.
• Oversee shared agent platform and cloud operations on AWS and GCP, including security and cost.
• Coordinate with product/program management on scope and status reporting.

Skills

Leadership 5+ years

Software engineering 12+ years

English communication

Claude Code AI agents

Python/SQL/Java

AWS/GCP

Production reliability (on-call)

Hiring & mentoring

Architectural depth

Time zone collaboration

Ad tech / large-scale data

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Cambridge O Levels or A Levels

Tools

Claude Code

AWS

GCP

Job description

Pixalate is hiring a Director of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan to lead all of our Lahore engineering. The team builds data pipelines, fraud detection logic, analytics and AI agents behind Pixalate's ad fraud, Connected TV and mobile products.

The scope is the whole Lahore team, not one product: MRT pipeline, MRT and Analytics MCP, ad fraud detection, creative intelligence, and shared coding agents and cloud operations that every team depends on.