Technology lead

About the role

NextChapter runs on TypeScript, React and Postgres, with AI features throughout the product and AI agents that help run the business. The technology lead owns the technical direction, security and reliability, and the standards for how AI is built, evaluated and paid for.

Seniority: Senior leader and hands-on engineer. Owns engineering and reports to the founder. Builds and mentors the team as it grows. Comparable titles: Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering.

What you will do

• Own the technical direction of the platform, and keep it secure and reliable.
• Design, build and evaluate the AI features and AI agents that help run the product and the business.
• Set the standards for safety, privacy, cost and quality in every AI use.
• Build and mentor the engineering team as it grows.
• Work with the product lead to ship what matters.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leading engineers or readiness to.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered software to production (required).
• Strong full-stack engineering.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Next.js, Prisma and Postgres.
• Experience evaluating and monitoring LLM output.

Skills and tools

• typescript
• react
• node.js
• sql
• postgresql
• aws
• ci/cd
• rest api
• machine learning
• docker
• agile
• team building

What you need to know

• Building with large language models: prompting, evaluation, cost control
• Protecting sensitive personal data
• Authentication, security reviews and incident response

How you work

• You write code and review it, and you ship small and often.
• You measure AI output rather than trusting it.
• You explain technical tradeoffs plainly to people who are not engineers.

In your first 90 days

• A review of the codebase, security and AI costs.
• Billing and checkout delivered or scheduled.
• A written standard for how AI is used and approved.