Engineering Lead, AI Engineer (Applied​/Software), Full Stack Developer

Opus Clip is the world's No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media. We envision a world where everyone can authentically share their story through video, with no expertise needed. Within just 18 months of our launch, over 10 million creators and businesses have used Opus Clip to enhance their social presence. We have raised $50 million in total funding and are fortunate to have some of the most supportive investors, including Soft Bank Vision Fund, DCM Ventures, Millennium New Horizons, Fellows Fund, AI Grant, Jason Lemkin (Saa Str), Samsung Next, GTMfund, Alumni Ventures, and many more.

Check out our latest coverage by Business Insider featuring our product and funding milestones, and our recognition as one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups in 2024. Headquartered in Mountain View, we are a team of 100 passionate and experienced AI enthusiasts and video experts, driven by our core values:
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We're hiring an Engineering Lead to be the senior-most engineering leader in our Burnaby office - the person the whole site looks to for direction, standards, and momentum. This is not a coordination role. You will own the output of a ~10-person engineering team spanning growth engineering, B2B/enterprise delivery, Dev Ops/SRE, data engineering, and our most production- and data-sensitive systems (authentication, billing-adjacent surfaces, PII).

You'll set the bar for what great looks like, hold the team to it in person every day, and grow the org - its size, its talent density, and its next generation of technical leaders. You'll work as a true player-coach: close enough to the architecture and the code to earn the respect of senior engineers, and experienced enough as a manager to build a team where high performance is the norm.

• Lead the office, in person.
• Be the visible, accountable engineering authority on-site in Burnaby.
• Set the operating cadence, uphold standards and in-office discipline, and create the environment where the team performs at its best whether or not anyone is watching.
• Build a high-performance culture, in both directions.
• This is the job, not a soft skill attached to it.
• Find the people already operating above their level: give them the visible work, pay and promote them accordingly, and make them the standard everyone else is measured against.
• Find the people who aren't clearing the bar: tell them plainly and early, then either grow them or move them on - quickly, and with dignity.
• Most leaders do the second half and call it talent density; we care at least as much about the first.
• Build an AI-native engineering culture.
• Champion a way of working where AI agents are part of every engineer's daily workflow - and where the leverage shows up in the team's output.
• Own delivery across the site's domains - and stay in the work.
• Growth and pricing are yours outright: experimentation, conversion, monetization, and the systems that decide what we charge and why.
• Data science and the reframing systems too.
• You'll review the designs, challenge the architecture, and unblock the hard problems yourself - senior engineers should want your opinion, not just your sign-off.
• When one of those numbers moves, you should be the first person with a theory, not the last to hear.
• Hold the dotted lines without holding the org chart.
• Platform/SRE, security, and B2B engineering sit in this office but report elsewhere.
• That includes some of our most sensitive surfaces: sign-on, PII, production access, infrastructure security.
• You won't own those reviews, and you will still be the reason those engineers are supported, visible, held to the same bar.
• If influence without authority reads as a demotion, this is the wrong role.
• Partner globally.
• Work daily with leadership and engineering teams in Mountain View, Shanghai, and Chengdu, and with product and CX teammates in the Burnaby office.
• Represent Vancouver’s engineering voice in company-level decisions.

• You’d rather stay purely hands-on-code than own the…