Lead Engineer - AI-Native Email App

Overview

Lead Engineer (hands-on technical leadership) to own complex product and system design, execution, and improve the team’s engineering bar.

What you'll do

• Lead technical design and execution for major products, features, and initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable, maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set high standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
• Monitor production, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.

What you'll need

• Significant experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex/high-scale systems.
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership.
• Comfort reviewing code, debugging complex issues, and working with production systems.
• Ability to explain complex technical decisions and influence engineers across teams.

Details

• Location: Hong Kong.
• Work mode: Remote.
• Working language: English.