Location: 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 (In-person)

Compensation: $280,000 - $375,000 base (bonus + equity, commensurate with experience)

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff to serve as a key engineering leader driving Blitzy's technical strategy and execution. You'll partner directly with our CTO to scale our engineering organization, and ensure we're building an autonomous software development platform that performs at the highest levels of quality, reliability, and speed. This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership, team building, and hands-on execution-translating our product vision into a scalable, high-performing engineering organization.

You'll partner with the CTO to define engineering strategy and execution across multiple areas, build and lead high-performing engineering teams, and make critical decisions that shape the platform's future. This is a role for a leader who can scale teams and systems, who can operate with both strategic vision and technical depth, and who thrives in the fast pace of a hypergrowth startup.

This role is ideal for someone with a track record of leading engineering organizations at high-growth technology companies, who combines strong technical judgment with the leadership skills to build and retain top engineering talent.

What Success Looks Like

• You build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, with strong processes for hiring, onboarding, and career development
• You drive the technical roadmap and architecture decisions that keep the platform reliable, secure, and performant at scale
• Serve as the right hand of the CTO to establish engineering rigor-code quality standards, CI/CD practices, incident response, and on-call processes
• You develop and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, creating a strong leadership bench
• You represent engineering in company-wide strategic planning and support the CTO for Board-level updates

Areas of Ownership

Engineering Strategy & Execution

• Set and drive the technical roadmap in partnership with the CTO
• Own execution across multiple engineering teams, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery
• Execute key architecture and technology decisions that scale with the business as defined by the CTO
• Balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term platform investment

Team Building & Leadership

• Recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent across all levels
• Build and develop a strong bench of engineering managers and senior technical leaders
• Establish clear career ladders, performance frameworks, and growth paths
• Foster an engineering culture rooted in ownership, craftsmanship, and speed

Engineering Operations & Rigor

• Implement and continuously improve engineering processes: agile/sprint planning, code review, CI/CD, testing, and incident management
• Own platform reliability, security, and performance at scale
• Establish on-call rotations and incident response practices that minimize downtime
• Drive metrics and reporting that give leadership visibility into engineering velocity and health

Special Projects & Scaling Initiatives

• Stand up new engineering functions, teams, or processes where gaps exist
• Solve the hardest, most ambiguous technical and organizational problems facing the company

Required Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership roles
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams at high-growth technology companies
• Deep technical expertise across modern software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience managing engineering managers and building leadership benches
• Strong track record of shipping complex software products on predictable timelines
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executives and Boards
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic, business-level thinking
• Experience operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity startup environments

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience at an AI/ML or developer tools company
• Background in autonomous systems, agentic AI, or large-scale code generation platforms
• Experience scaling engineering orgs through hypergrowth (Series A to Series C+)
• Track record of building engineering culture that attracts and retains top talent
• Hands-on technical credibility-able to dive into code and architecture when needed
• Experience with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and reliability requirements
• MBA or equivalent business acumen alongside deep technical expertise

What Makes This Role Different

Unlike a traditional engineering management role, you'll be:

• Setting direction: Shaping technical strategy and architecture at a foundational stage of the company
• Building from scratch: Establishing engineering processes, culture, and structure as we scale
• Operating cross-functionally: Working directly with the CTO, GTM, and executive leadership
• Solving ambiguity: Tackling technical and organizational problems that don't have established playbooks
• Influencing direction: Your technical decisions directly shape the platform and the company's trajectory