Platform Engineering Leader & Architect

Fig Technology Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Fig Technology Inc. is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the platform team that powers every deployment. You will own the architecture, drive the weekly roadmap, and hire and grow engineers while maintaining a hands-on coding role.

Based in San Francisco, you will manage production reliability, cost, and model performance, coordinating with founders to keep the team small and focused on delivering value to customers.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years building production software, with at least three leading an engineering team under fifteen people.
• Has designed a system deployed into many customer environments and lived with the consequences.
• Has shipped LLM systems to real users and has strong, tested opinions on agents, evals and model routing.
• Still codes, wants to, and can show it.
• Direct with the founders, generous with the team, and clear in writing.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the platform: what is a platform feature, what stays a deployment-specific piece, and when field-built work gets pulled into the product.
• Run the roadmap with the Head of Deployment: a ranked list of what breaks in the field, and a weekly release that fixes it.
• Hire and grow the platform engineers, and keep the team small enough that everyone knows the whole system.
• Write code. Take the hardest lane yourself when nobody else can, and review everything that ships.
• Own production: reliability, cost, model performance, and the on-call rotation you are part of.

Skills

Platform architecture

Team leadership

Production software

LLM systems

Coding

Communication

Job description

Fig Technology Inc. is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the platform team that powers every deployment. You will own the architecture, drive the weekly roadmap, and hire and grow engineers while maintaining a hands-on coding role.

Based in San Francisco, you will manage production reliability, cost, and model performance, coordinating with founders to keep the team small and focused on delivering value to customers.