Engineering Leader - Alice

About 11x

At 11x, we're building autonomous digital workers that handle routine work end-to-end, freeing humans to focus on what they do best—creating, innovating, and building meaningful relationships. We're one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies. We've achieved a 20x increase in ARR and raised $75M+ from leading investors including a16z and Benchmark. Our team works in-person in our San Francisco office.

As the Engineering Leader for Alice, you will own the engineering direction, execution, and technical success of one of 11x’s flagship product.

You will set the technical vision, drive execution at a high bar, and ensure Alice scales with speed and quality. You’ll work in close partnership with the Head of Product and collaborate directly with the CEO on priorities and strategic direction.

You’ll combine strong systems thinking, decisive leadership, and hands‑on technical depth to help Alice reach its full potential.

• Own the technical architecture and long‑term scalability of Alice.
• Translate product strategy into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Make high-leverage architectural decisions that set the team up for speed and reliability.
• Drive technical tradeoffs across performance, velocity, and maintainability.

• Lead end-to-end engineering execution — from technical design to production.
• Establish strong planning and sprint processes that keep the team focused and accountable.
• Maintain a high quality bar through strong code reviews, design reviews, and technical rigor.
• Drive urgency without sacrificing long‑term engineering health.

• Guide system design for complex, AI‑enabled workflows.
• Raise the engineering bar across reliability, observability, testing, and scalability.
• Introduce tools and processes that improve velocity and developer productivity.
• Champion AI‑native development practices across the team.

• Coach, mentor, and grow engineers across both technical and career development paths.
• Create a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Help shape hiring processes to bring in top‑tier talent as the team scales.

• 6+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a management or technical leadership role.
• Strong technical foundation in modern web architectures, distributed systems, or AI/ML applications.
• Proven ability to run teams that ship fast without breaking things.
• Comfortable making tough tradeoffs and setting clear priorities in ambiguous situations.
• Deep curiosity about AI—both as a product capability and as a developer productivity tool.
• Strong communicator who can partner effectively with product and executive leadership.
• High ownership mindset and bias toward action.

• Build at the cutting edge of AI with a team that values speed, ownership, and technical rigor.
• Work alongside world‑class engineers, operators, and product builders.
• High trust, high autonomy culture—zero bureaucracy, maximum impact.
• Competitive compensation with upside potential as we scale.