Engineering Lead, AI Email App

Overview

Engineering Lead for an AI Email App, owning the engineering layer that turns AI capability into a reliable product.

What you'll do

• Own 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 APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences.
• Lead a small team of senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
• Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
• Establish production foundations including observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.
• Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.

What you'll need

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Hands-on background building and shipping production backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment to decide with incomplete information.
• Comfortable working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one.
• Bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage.
• High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.

Details

• Location: Singapore.
• Interviews may be via virtual meetings and/or onsite.