Head of Engineering

3 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Jecona Full time

We are partnering with a mobile start up that is building the next generation of dating — one that's more honest, intentional, and human. They are looking for a Head of Engineering to own technical strategy, execution and quality.

This role is onsite in their office in the Marina District and is a combination of strategy and hands-on coding. The max salary is $350k, and also includes options in the company.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture & roadmap
    across voice, chat, data, and matchmaking; keep it simple, scalable, and cost‑aware on AWS.
  • Lead by example:
    ship code, review PRs, raise the bar on reliability, security, and DX.
  • Build the team:
    recruit, interview, mentor; set clear expectations and rituals; create a high‑trust, high‑velocity culture.
  • Agentic platform:
    guide our LLM/tool‑use layer (OpenAI/Anthropic, Vapi),
    MCP servers
    , safety/guardrails, and observability.
  • Ship the core:
    ingestion → structured data; agentic chat with safe actions; first‑principles matchmaking; production deployments.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years building production systems; 2+ years leading teams (formally or de‑facto tech lead).
  • Expert

    ; strong systems/design skills; pragmatic about trade‑offs.
  • Hands‑on with
    LLM APIs
    (OpenAI/Anthropic) and tool‑use patterns; familiarity with
    voice agents
    (Vapi) and
    MCP servers
    .
  • Deep
    AWS
    experience (networking, ECS/Fargate, workers/queues, CI/CD, secrets, monitoring).
  • Comfortable in an on‑site, high‑intensity startup environment.

Nice to Have

  • Python for data/ML glue; embeddings/retrieval experience; prior founding/0→1 experience.

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