Head of AI-Driven Applications Engineering

Elitez Pte Ltd; Singapore; Remote; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Elitez Pte Ltd is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the engineering systems and teams responsible for turning ML capability into reliable, fast user experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.

You will stay close to product decisions, set high-quality delivery standards, and lead architectural choices to minimize risk while shipping impactful AI-powered features.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
• Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
• Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.
• Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
• A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
• Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
• Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behaviour, and graceful failure modes.
• Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
• Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
• Establish clear ownership boundaries across backend, mobile, and desktop to prevent architectural drift.
• Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
• Balance speed and discipline - shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Job description

Elitez Pte Ltd is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the engineering systems and teams responsible for turning ML capability into reliable, fast user experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.

You will stay close to product decisions, set high-quality delivery standards, and lead architectural choices to minimize risk while shipping impactful AI-powered features.