Remote Engineering Lead for AI Email Apps

Next Step Systems; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Savings plan

PTO

Job summary

Next Step Systems seeks an Engineering Lead for AI Email Applications. This hands-on leadership role owns the architecture across backend services, APIs, and client apps, guiding a small team of senior engineers. The position is 100% Remote and requires readiness for a 60-minute coding assessment.

You will work with ML/LLM tech to turn model capabilities into robust product experiences, ensure observability, reliability, and scalability, and balance latency, cost, and user experience.

Qualifications

• AI experience is required.
• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems that integrate with modern ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build the APIs and abstractions that connect AI systems to real-world product experiences.
• Lead a small, senior engineering team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
• Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
• Establish strong production foundations: observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.
• Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple, maintainable, and ready to scale.

Skills

AI experience

Leadership

Backend engineering

APIs design

LLM experience

Code reviews

Ownership

Job description

Next Step Systems seeks an Engineering Lead for AI Email Applications. This hands-on leadership role owns the architecture across backend services, APIs, and client apps, guiding a small team of senior engineers. The position is 100% Remote and requires readiness for a 60-minute coding assessment.

You will work with ML/LLM tech to turn model capabilities into robust product experiences, ensure observability, reliability, and scalability, and balance latency, cost, and user experience.