Engineering Leadership

The role

You will shape technical direction and build the engineering team. You will partner with the CTO and CEO to translate the roadmap into reality and drive engineering excellence.

What you will do

• Partner with CTO and CEO to define engineering strategy, architecture direction, and execution plan
• Lead, hire, and develop an engineering team
• Own delivery of the engineering roadmap
• Set and uphold engineering best practices
• Build cross-functional operating rhythms
• Establish metrics and systems for engineering effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement of platform performance, scalability, and maintainability

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Meaningful time leading teams in an engineering leadership capacity
• Proven ability to build and scale engineering teams in a fast-moving environment
• Strong technical foundation and architectural judgment
• Hands-on experience shipping and operating production systems
• Experience partnering cross-functionally and translating product goals into technical plans
• High standards for engineering excellence
• Exceptional communication skills
• Track record of leading through ambiguity
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Early-stage startup experience
• Experience with Go, GRPC, Kubernetes, React, Typescript, AWS, and Terraform
• Experience building AI-enabled product features

Benefits

• Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company
• Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering and grow rapidly with the company
• Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun

About the company

Serval is an AI-native enterprise service management platform that automates work. It is headquartered in San Francisco.