Head of Engineering at Parallelz leading technical strategy to build a next-gen mobile app platform. Building a senior engineering team and collaborating with the CEO on product architecture.
Responsibilities
Own the architectural design and technical roadmap end-to-end across the product and our cloud-based infrastructure, partnering closely with the CEO to translate business and product priorities into clear technical direction while ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Lead and grow a small, senior team of engineers working across graphics (WebGL, WebGPU, OpenGL ES), Android/Linux internals, browser engines, network programming, WASM, WebRTC, DevOps, and cloud.
Recruit, hire, and develop a world-class, mission-driven technical team, with a high bar for AI-native working style as a baseline expectation, not a bonus.
Champion and operationalize an AI-native engineering culture: integrate agentic and AI tooling into design, code, review, testing, debugging, and ops; define the patterns, guardrails, and quality bars that let the team move at AI-accelerated velocity without losing rigor.
Provide hands-on technical guidance to senior ICs, going deep with the team when problems warrant it.
Facilitate collaboration and information sharing across a hybrid team, with a strong bias toward written, asynchronous, AI-leveraged workflows.
Promote a culture of first-principles problem-solving where engineers understand every layer of the systems they touch.
Own the candidate and employee lifecycle for direct reports: hiring, onboarding, goal-setting, performance management, and career development.
Requirements
**Must Haves:**
Prior experience in a senior engineering leadership role (VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Engineering Manager, Technical Director), or a Principal/Staff IC role with proven architectural ownership of a complex software product.
Deep, daily fluency with AI coding agents, LLM tooling, and agentic systems, with a clear point of view on where they help, where they fail, and how to verify their output.
Track record of driving team-level adoption of AI-native workflows, not just personal use.
Experience in a zero-to-one, venture-backed startup environment.
A passion for invention and a track record of building innovative emerging technologies with strong R&D foundations.
Track record of shipping live products under rapid iterative development.
Strong believer in smaller, more senior, highly collaborative teams enabled by aggressive automation and AI leverage.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to operate in a hybrid environment.
**Nice to Haves:**
Hands-on background or leadership experience in deeply technical, performance-critical software: graphics programming (WebGL, WebGPU, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, game/browser engines), low-level systems (C/C++, AOSP/Android, Linux internals), WASM, WebRTC, or real-time streaming.
Experience managing and scaling cloud-based production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP, alongside familiarity with modern DevOps practices.
Background in advanced compression, video encoding, AdTech, or Mobile SDK ecosystems.
Technical product management experience.
Graduate work and/or a research background in a related area.
Benefits
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account
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