BJAK

VP of Engineering, Applications

BJAK

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
  • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
  • Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
  • Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
  • Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
  • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
  • Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
  • Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
  • Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems
  • Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production
  • Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs
  • Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows
  • Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one
  • Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity
  • A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage
  • Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization
Benefits
  • Our organization is very flat and our team is small
  • We value transparency and efficiency
  • Expect a prompt decision
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend systemsAI-powered productssystem designAPIsdata flowsclient integrationsobservabilitymonitoringproduction readinesstechnical leadership
Soft Skills
leadershipdecision makingiterationlearning from usagejudgmentcollaborationexecution culturecommunicationproblem solvingadaptability