AI-Native Technical Lead – Platform & Apps

Sekai; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top compensation package, including a6

Remote‑first team

Comprehensive health insurance and ben

Job summary

Sekai is hiring a Technical Lead to drive technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data. You will act as a technical partner to the founders, product team, and engineering team — turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans and unblocking hard engineering problems.

You will work with Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter, native iOS/Android, AI systems, data infrastructure, and recommendation systems, using AI tools to ramp up on new languages and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading large-scope technical work across multiple engineers, teams, or product areas.
• Experience as a Technical Lead, Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, Head of Engineering, CTO, Staff Engineer, or hands‑on Engineering Manager.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and technical judgment across multiple domains.
• Deep familiarity with AI tools and ability to use AI to augment technical execution and decision‑making.
• Ability to operate under ambiguity and turn unclear goals into executable plans.
• Strong communication skills with founders, product managers, designers, and engineers.
• Startup‑level ownership, urgency, and willingness to dive into details.

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

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI tools

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Python

Go

Next.js

React

React Native

Flutter

iOS/Android

Job description

Sekai is hiring a Technical Lead to drive technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data. You will act as a technical partner to the founders, product team, and engineering team — turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans and unblocking hard engineering problems.

You will work with Python, Go, Next.js, React, React Native, Flutter, native iOS/Android, AI systems, data infrastructure, and recommendation systems, using AI tools to ramp up on new languages and