Director of AI Platform & Scalable Engineering

Blitzy; Cambridge (MA); On-site; AUD 343,000 - 457,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Job summary

Blitzy is searching for a Director of Engineering to lead and scale our backend, infrastructure, and AI surface. You will report to the CTO and oversee Principal and Senior Engineers, turning product priorities into concrete roadmaps.

This hands-on leadership role requires close coding involvement, credible technical decisions, and delivery excellence. You will hire, mentor, and align engineering with customer and business goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including direct management of senior or principal engineers.
• Hands-on software engineering with deep backend expertise and production code reasoning.
• Proven ability to deliver complex software products reliably at scale.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate cloud-native, distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering execution across backend, infrastructure, and AI-powered systems.
• Manage and develop Principal and Senior Engineers, providing clear expectations, feedback, mentorship, and career growth.
• Translate product and business priorities into actionable engineering roadmaps, milestones, and delivery commitments.
• Drive execution across planning, sprint cycles, prioritization, and delivery forecasting.
• Establish engineering practices that promote strong code quality, documentation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Identify risks early and mitigate before impacting customers or objectives.
• Coordinate production incident response and strengthen system reliability and SLA performance.
• Hire and onboard engineering talent and guide leveling and organizational development.
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to Leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Partner with CTO, Product, Leadership, and Customer Success to align engineering with needs.
• Use metrics and feedback to improve velocity and performance.

Skills

Engineering management

Backend software engineering

Leadership

Technical communication

Product delivery

Tools

Python

REST APIs

gRPC

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Vector/graph databases

Job description

Blitzy is searching for a Director of Engineering to lead and scale our backend, infrastructure, and AI surface. You will report to the CTO and oversee Principal and Senior Engineers, turning product priorities into concrete roadmaps.

This hands-on leadership role requires close coding involvement, credible technical decisions, and delivery excellence. You will hire, mentor, and align engineering with customer and business goals.