AI-Driven Technical Lead, Platform & Data

Sekai; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Comprehensive health insurance

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Sekai is seeking a Technical Lead to drive technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data. You will partner with founders, product, and engineering to turn ambiguous goals into concrete plans and unblock complex engineering challenges.

You will work with Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter, native iOS/Android, and AI systems, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while scaling the team. This is remote-friendly in a high-growth startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data initiatives.
• Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans, milestones, owners, and trade-offs.
• Dive deep into hard technical problems and help drive them to resolution.
• Partner with founders, product, design, and engineering on technical decisions.
• Coordinate cross-domain engineering work and remove execution blockers.
• Raise the bar for engineering quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Help define hiring needs, role requirements, interview criteria, and technical evaluation standards.
• Build internal AI workflows and foster an AI-native engineering culture.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Technical leadership

Strong communication

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Python

Go

Next.js

React

React Native

Flutter

AI systems

Job description

Sekai is seeking a Technical Lead to drive technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data. You will partner with founders, product, and engineering to turn ambiguous goals into concrete plans and unblock complex engineering challenges.

You will work with Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter, native iOS/Android, and AI systems, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while scaling the team. This is remote-friendly in a high-growth startup.