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Head of Engineering
Up Labs
Los AngelesHybrid5mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Lead your venture engineering teams (2-4 teams of 5 engineers each) to address genuine, real-world business problems
- Build, grow and operate successful startups, working alongside venture leadership, head of product, business/growth leader and corporate partners
- Heavily use AI tools to accelerate speed and quality of software delivery
- Contribute to building internal AI tools for acceleration and IP portfolio expansion
- Ensure technical feasibility of all venture products
- Identifying areas where frontier technology can be a differentiator or moat for our ventures
- Create rapid proofs of concept, then scale into functional MVPs to turn concepts into tangible reality.
- Build using software best practices in testability, maintainability, security, and scalability
- Be a player/coach, leading and mentoring your engineering teams, and not hesitating to get into the weeds when needed, oftentimes architecting solutions or writing code
- Cross-pollinate learnings, best practice and insights between multiple ventures and labs to drive continuous improvement of Engineering at UP.Labs.
- Enjoy working in a diverse, fast-paced, collaborative, and transparent environment where all ideas and opinions are valued
- 7+ years of experience in engineering leadership developing technical teams.
- Experience and passion in building startup ventures
- Strong interest in adoption of AI for 10x improvement of Engineering workflows
- Familiarity and preference working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments such as startups and growth-phase tech companies. No red tape and results focused.
- Hands-on and end-to-end product build, development and delivery experience with a mix of customer interfaces (e.g web, mobile), languages and technologies
- Experience working with or managing remote, distributed teams including full-time engineers and vendors/contractors
- The ability to build scalable, high quality, distributed services
- Experience working with agile, lean and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as scrum, Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc
- Experience building cloud native software architectures
- Strong experience in collaborating with Product teams to find effective solutions
- Experience designing and maintaining effective agile development processes, quality assurance standards, and reliable delivery.
- Ability to effectively evaluate technical talent on each of your teams, and through technical interviews
- Strong communication skills to explain technical vision and deeply technical concepts to a variety of multidisciplinary team members and stakeholders
- An open, curious and humble mindset that builds on to our open, inclusive and collaborative environment
- Experience working with Data Science and Machine Learning Engineers to build frontier technology solutions
- Domain expertise in trucking, freight, logistics
- Frameworks & Libraries: React/Tailwind, Fastify/Next.js, LangChain/LangGraph
- Languages: TypeScript, Python
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitOps, AWS/GCP/Azur
Perks & benefits
- Distributed Team
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