Head of AI-Driven Applications Engineering

Elitez Pte Ltd

Singapore

Remote

SGD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Elitez Pte Ltd in Singapore seeks a senior engineering leader to own the application engineering strategy across backend, mobile, and desktop, guiding delivery of AI-powered product experiences. You will lead a senior team, set architectural direction, ensure production readiness, and collaborate with ML leadership to translate models into shipping features.

Strong design sense and a bias for shipping are essential.

Qualifications

Experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems in production.
Experience delivering AI-powered products with model integration considerations.
Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
Comfort operating across backend, mobile and desktop platforms.
Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.

Responsibilities

Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
Lead and grow a small, senior applications team (backend, mobile, desktop).
Set architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs and client integrations.
Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions and graceful failure modes.
Partner with ML leadership to translate model capability into shippable features.
Balance latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
Establish ownership boundaries across backend, mobile, and desktop to prevent drift.
Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly while maintaining long-term quality.