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Head of Engineering
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-06-26
Listing for:
FutureTech Recruitment
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-26
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Responsibilities
- Own what ships, how fast, and how reliably - end-to-end accountability for engineering output on timelines the company stands behind
- Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and earn the team’s trust
- Make architectural decisions that build and protect the company’s competitive moat - UX, data modelling, and data centricity
- Get real velocity from AI tooling across the team - no AI slop, just measurable output
- Build and own the engineering operating system - code review, on-call, incident response, security
- Own the hiring bar and team size as the company grows selectively
- 7+ years as a strong IC engineer with recent leadership of distributed teams at an early-stage B2B startup
- Led a distributed engineering team of 5+ at an early-stage B2B startup
- Experience building user-facing products at the application layer with strong data modelling fluency
- Background in regulated industries (Gov Tech, Health Tech, Fin Tech), former founder/founding engineer, or data-centric product companies (Nice to have)
- Shipped production code in the last 6 months - this is not a purely managerial role
- Fluent across the stack - React, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
- Intellectual sparring partner - takes direct feedback and pushes back when genuinely disagreeing
- Low ego with a well-rounded perspective
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