cto for an AI-powered product

HireHi; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

21 vacation days

Public holidays

5 sick days

Company ai tool subscriptions (ChatGPT

Fully remote across Europe

Job summary

HireHi ищет ведущего инженера бэкенда для руководства небольшой командой и реализации сложных распределённых систем. Ваша роль включает архитектурные решения, интеграцию с внешними сервисами и развитие фреймворка LLM-агентов для масштабирования и высокой пропускной способности.

Требуется опыт управления командами, глубокие знания Python и асинхронных технологий, а также умение работать с высокими ставками и изменяющимися требованиями. От вас ожидается автономия и ориентация на продукт.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production software experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on async Python in production.
• 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• Strong background designing and evolving complex distributed systems, platform-level infrastructure, or other high-scale backend architectures.
• Ability to define technical direction, break down ambiguous problems, prioritize work, and deliver results with high autonomy.
• Product-minded approach and end-to-end ownership of features, from shaping technical solutions and planning execution to identifying risks, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving delivery.
• Practical experience building with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks, plus up-to-date knowledge of the evolving AI ecosystem and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small backend team and own execution, including decomposition, estimation, and prioritization.
• Assess team performance and growth, and adjust team composition when needed without disrupting delivery.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services.
• Develop the internal LLM agent framework, focusing on scalability, throughput, and parallel processing.
• Extend and refine platform architecture to meet the project's evolving needs.
• Technically lead the backend/platform track, break down complex work into clear tasks, and build processes around product goals.
• Adapt to shifting priorities, work in short feedback loops, keep the team aligned, and drive work through to completion.
• Align with other teams on architecture, integrations, ownership boundaries, and work to be owned or handed off.
• Ensure system observability and reliability through metrics, tracing, and monitoring.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Product ownership

Autonomy

Observability

Adaptability

Tools

Python

Async frameworks

LLM frameworks

Monitoring tools

Job description

Описание:

The team builds award-winning AI products for technology corporations, including devices and voice assistants. Its products use speech technologies, NLP, generative AI, and voice-first agentic architecture, with privacy-first and on-premises deployment.

Задачи:

• Lead a small backend team and own execution, including decomposition, estimation, and prioritization
• Assess team performance and growth, and adjust team composition when needed without disrupting delivery
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services
• Develop the internal LLM agent framework, focusing on scalability, throughput, and parallel processing
• Extend and refine platform architecture to meet the project's evolving needs
• Technically lead the backend/platform track, break down complex work into clear tasks, and build processes around product goals
• Adapt to shifting priorities, work in short feedback loops, keep the team aligned, and drive work through to completion
• Align with other teams on architecture, integrations, ownership boundaries, and work to be owned or handed off
• Ensure system observability and reliability through metrics, tracing, and monitoring

Требования:

• 6+ Years of experience building and shipping production software
• 3+ Years of hands-on experience with asynchronous Python in production environments
• 2+ Years of engineering leadership experience, leading teams while remaining deeply technical
• Strong background designing and evolving complex distributed systems, platform-level infrastructure, or other high-scale backend architectures
• Ability to define technical direction, break down ambiguous problems, prioritize work, and deliver results with high autonomy and without detailed specifications or constant guidance
• Product-minded approach and end-to-end ownership of features, from shaping technical solutions and planning execution to identifying risks, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving delivery
• Ability to provide thoughtful feedback, maintain a high technical bar, and make decisions that maximize team effectiveness
• Practical experience building with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks, plus up-to-date knowledge of the evolving AI ecosystem and engineering best practices
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, shape solutions, and adapt as requirements and priorities change

Условия:

• 21 Vacation days, public holidays, and 5 sick days
• Private English lessons via Preply
• Company-paid subscriptions to AI tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor
• Fully remote across Europe