Blitzy

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Cambridge, MA. Posted 3 months ago

The role

A Senior Member of Technical Staff will drive technical strategy and execution in partnership with the CTO. This leader will scale the engineering organization, build high-performing teams, and ensure the autonomous software development platform meets quality and reliability standards.

What you will do

  • Set and drive the technical roadmap in partnership with the CTO
  • Own execution across multiple engineering teams
  • Execute key architecture and technology decisions
  • Balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term platform investment
  • Recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent
  • Build and develop a strong bench of engineering managers and senior technical leaders
  • Establish career ladders, performance frameworks, and growth paths
  • Foster an engineering culture rooted in ownership, craftsmanship, and speed
  • Implement and improve engineering processes like agile, code review, CI/CD, testing, and incident management
  • Own platform reliability, security, and performance at scale

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • 4+ years in engineering leadership roles
  • Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams at high-growth technology companies
  • Deep technical expertise across modern software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience managing engineering managers and building leadership benches
  • Strong track record of shipping complex software products on predictable timelines
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executives and Boards
  • Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic, business-level thinking
  • Experience at an AI/ML or developer tools company
  • Background in autonomous systems, agentic AI, or large-scale code generation platforms
  • Experience scaling engineering orgs through hypergrowth (Series A to Series C+)
  • Track record of building engineering culture that attracts and retains top talent

Nice to have

  • MBA or equivalent business acumen

About the company

Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform that builds custom software autonomously. The company is backed by multiple tier 1 investors and aims to revolutionize the software development life cycle.