What you will be doing:
- Oversee thearchitecture, development, and delivery of all software components, spanning web applications, backend systems, and Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure.
- Be a key partner to the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science,ensuring software is seamlessly integrated with physical systems, user experience, and domain expertise.
- Define, implement, and scale thesoftware architecture across web, backend, and ML systems.
- Maintain strong engineering standards for code quality, security, testing, and deployment.
- Lead key technical initiatives, contributing code and architecture reviews.
- Drive integration of software with hardware systems pipelines.
- Build, lead, and mentora multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Establish effective workflows for development, QA, deployment, and iteration.
- Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance engineering culture.
- Partner with People/HR in hiring and scaling the team.
- Collaborate closely with the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science to ensure end-to-end product integration.
- Translate business and research needs into scalable software solutions.
- Balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and scalability.
- Support leadership in communicating technical vision to investors, partners, and stakeholders.
Experience you will need:
- 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 3 in a leadership role.
- Proven expertise inweb application development (frontend + backend).
- Hands on experience withmachine learning workflows and/or data heavy systems.
- Strong understanding ofcloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
- Experience collaborating with cross functional hardware or science focused teams.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills.