Engineering Lead, AI HR Platforms & UX

Cascade AI; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Cascade AI is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide the team building the next generation of our end-user experiences. You will manage engineers, own architecture for employee-facing interfaces, and partner with product and design to ship reliable, high-performance experiences.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO and emphasizes day-to-day delivery, team health, and production excellence across real-time HR workflows. Join a fast-growing, venture-backed AI company shaping HR tech.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time leading or managing engineers.
• Strong proficiency in Python (required).
• Strong cloud experience (required) - depth in any cloud platform.
• Strong system design experience (required), with a track record of production-ready systems.
• Owning large, multi-sprint initiatives end-to-end and shipping them.
• Strong product intuition and ability to translate requirements into technical plans.
• Experience with scalable architectures and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Clear communicator who aligns engineering decisions with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers - own day-to-day execution, technical direction, and the team's delivery and health.
• Drive full-stack development of Cascade's core end-user experiences: conversational interfaces, workflow surfaces, and agent-driven interactions.
• Architect frontend and backend systems that support real-time, long-running HR workflows.
• Make and guide architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and rapid iteration.
• Mentor and develop engineers through code reviews, pairing, and direct technical and career guidance.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and the AI/LLM platform team to define roadmap priorities and shape features.
• Turn user feedback into iterative improvements that increase clarity, trust, and engagement.
• Own production excellence: monitoring, observability, and incident response for your surface.

Skills

Leadership

Python

Cloud platforms

System design

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

WorkOS

Job description

Cascade AI is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide the team building the next generation of our end-user experiences. You will manage engineers, own architecture for employee-facing interfaces, and partner with product and design to ship reliable, high-performance experiences.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO and emphasizes day-to-day delivery, team health, and production excellence across real-time HR workflows. Join a fast-growing, venture-backed AI company shaping HR tech.