Engineering Lead, AI Email App

Overview

Lead engineering for an AI email application, shaping architecture across backend services, APIs, mobile, and desktop clients. This hands-on role leads a small senior engineering team and focuses on reliable, scalable AI-powered workflows.

What you'll do

• Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable AI workflow systems covering state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems with product experiences.
• Lead a small senior engineering team through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
• Balance latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience in architectural decisions.
• Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and operational foundations.
• Partner with ML leadership to ship robust AI product experiences.

What you'll need

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products or integrating modern ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment when making decisions with incomplete information.
• Expertise in at least one backend or client platform.
• Strong ownership, shipping, and learning orientation.
• High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.

Details

• Location: China.
• Interview meetings may be virtual and/or onsite.