Lead Product Engineer, Full Stack​/Applied AI

Lead Product Engineer, Full Stack / Applied AI
Advanced Aircrew Academy

Remote (Eastern or Central Time, Canada or U.S.) Full-time Reporting to Co-CEO (Operations) Travel: 10 to 20%; must hold a valid passport and be eligible to travel internationally.

About Advanced Aircrew Academy
At Advanced Aircrew Academy, we help flight departments elevate safety, exceed standards, and stay mission-ready. Through modern training, we empower tens of thousands of aviation professionals to operate with compliance, simplicity, and scalability.

The Role
Operators must keep crews trained, qualified and ready to fly, but that still means assembling training by hand and reconciling records across disconnected tools. We build software that removes that work, and AI that turns an operator’s own materials into courseware that teaches better, not just faster.
You own day-to-day product management and engineering delivery: discover problems, shape and prioritize the roadmap, design solutions, then personally build, launch and improve them. You will build primarily with coding agents, and you own the practices that keep that safe: code review, tests, access, and what an agent can change without a human.
This is a senior, hands‑on leadership role for an engineer who wants to decide what should be built and then build it. This is an opportunity to build the engineering function of a market‑leading company entering its next stage of growth.
Who You Work With

Co-CEO (Operations).  Your partner on product and design. Major direction and investment choices are joint; within agreed goals and budgets, product and technical decisions are yours.
Director of Courseware.  Your main aviation partner, with other specialists, from discovery through validation. They own regulatory interpretation and content approval; you turn their knowledge into clear, tested software.
Customer Success, Chief of Staff and Commercial.  They bring customer and operational input; you turn it into product decisions without waiting for complete specifications.

What You Step Into
Working software in production for course creation and delivery, training records and reporting, which customers rely on for compliance and audits, plus an AI courseware system our courseware team already uses.
React/Type Script, PostgreSQL and AWS. Transferable depth matters more than familiarity with every tool. Interviews include the codebase.

What You Will Own
Customer discovery and product design start on day one.
Reliability and data integrity.  Own software reliability and integrity: accurate records, secure customer data, traceable changes, and the tests, monitoring and recovery behind them.
Better courseware, faster.  Improve the AI system that turns customer materials and requirements into courseware that teaches better and costs less to produce and keep current, with expert review where required.
Readiness workflows.  Build workflows that connect training to qualifications, records and readiness, and replace manual work customers do today.

How You Work
High agency.  You clarify goals, dig in, recommend, move work forward and flag blockers early.
Good judgement.  You weigh value, time, cost and reliability, and know when to build, buy, integrate, repair or do less. You make complex workflows simple and fix confusing steps from user feedback.
Root‑cause problem‑solving.  You reason from first principles and fix causes, not symptoms.
Player/coach leadership.  You build and ship while reviewing, coaching and documenting, so the team relies on you less over time.
Effective communication.  You write clearly, explain tradeoffs to nontechnical colleagues, disagree constructively and raise risks early.

What You Will Bring
Product ownership.  You have taken a B2B product or substantial feature…