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Engineering Lead, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home

Lead engineering for AI email apps to build reliable, scalable product experiences

As Engineering Lead for AI Email Applications, you will own the engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. You will design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, build APIs connecting AI systems to product experiences, and lead a small senior engineering team through hands-on mentorship and technical guidance. This role requires staying close to the code while making architectural decisions that balan...

Why This Role?

Direct partnership with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into shippable product experiences

Key Responsibilities

  • Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms
  • Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows including state management, orchestration, and failure handling
  • Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences
  • Lead a small senior engineering team 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

Requirements

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience
  • 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 integrating with modern ML/LLM capabilities
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to make decisions with incomplete information

Required Skills

aibackendapiteam-leadershipsystem-architecturemachine-learningAI systems engineeringbackend developmentAPI designteam leadershipsystem architecturetechnical mentorship
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Original description from Jobg8 (United States)

Boston, Massachusetts (United States) Job Description Job DescriptionJob Description Engineering Lead, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home As the Engineering Lead, AI Email Applications, you own the engineering layer that turns Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability into a reliable product. You will shape the architecture across backend services, APIs, and client applications, while leading a small team of senior engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role. You stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales. This position is 100% Remote. MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A 60 MINUTE CODING ASSESSMENT. Engineering Lead 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 Artificial Intelligence (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 Machine Learning (ML) leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences. - Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple, maintainable, and ready to scale. Engineering Lead Outcomes: - Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load. - Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience. - Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably. - Latency and reliability improve measurably over time. Qualifications Engineering Lead Qualifications: - Artificial Intelligence (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 Machine Learning (ML)/Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities. - Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information. - Comfortable working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one. - A strong bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage. - High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals. Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc. Looking to hire an Engineering Lead in San Francisco, CA or in other cities? Our IT recruiting agencies and staffing companies can help. We help companies that are looking to hire Engineering Leads for jobs in San Francisco, California and in other cities too. Please contact our IT recruiting agencies and IT staffing companies today! Additional Information Please check out all of our jobs at .

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Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · United States
Category
Seniority
lead
PostedNewNew & verified
Sep 12, 2026

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