Engineering Tech Lead (Voice AI Startup)
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San Francisco, CA · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
A fast-growing, seed-funded startup that builds voice and text-message AI agents for home-services businesses is looking for its first engineering lead. The founder-CTO wants to step back from daily code review and team management so he can spend more time with customers, and the new hire will run the engineering group and report to him. Upcoming technical challenges include scaling call volume sharply while keeping responses fast, growing from a calling product into a broader operating platform with CRM features, and building agents that test their own improvements against live traffic.
What you’ll own
Lead the engineers, review their code and take responsibility for what the team delivers
Make architectural calls for a latency-sensitive distributed system
Establish engineering practices and processes, and mentor the team
Prioritize tasks so they line up with business goals
Keep coding yourself, roughly a quarter of your time
Recruit a substantial number of additional engineers over the coming year
About you
Has led an engineering team of four or more people inside a quickly scaling startup
Staff-level or team-lead background with hands-on architectural decisions in backend, cloud and distributed systems
Strong Python and Postgres skills; some frontend ability helps (the stack includes Next.js and Azure)
Treats the engineering organization as a system, spotting bottlenecks and clearing them one after another
Warm people skills, curiosity and close attention to detail
On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, four days a week in the office with one remote day. Visa sponsorship and transfers are not available.