What You'll Do

We're building AI-native products with an AI-native engineering organization. Internally we've built agents to augment every stage of the software development lifecycle, from diagnosing the health of our systems, filing tickets, and shaping implementation plans to writing code, testing changes, investigating issues, and much more.

Agents have been an incredible force multiplier to our team and we're constantly finding new ways for humans and agents to build complex software together. Engineers remain responsible for architecture, product judgment, quality, and outcomes while agents assist with execution.

As a Tech Lead at Attention, you'll be a technical anchor on the team. You'll own important product areas, shape technical decisions, and help build the systems, tools, and workflows that enable engineers and coding agents to do their best work together.

Technical Leadership

• Lead complex projects from an ambiguous problem through architecture, delivery, and long-term ownership.
• Set a high bar for architecture, code quality, and engineering judgment.
• Help define how engineers and agents work together across planning, implementation, testing, review, and production operations.

Product Mindset

• Work closely with product and design to decide what to build and determine the right technical approach.
• Develop a deep understanding of our users and bring strong product judgment to technical decisions.
• Champion a high-quality user experience across reliability, performance, usability, and craft.

Scaling and Reliability

• Help evolve products and systems from early traction to broader adoption and greater complexity.
• Own the reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability of the systems you build.
• Improve the engineering foundations, tools, and agent-driven workflows that help the broader team scale.

What We Look For

Must Have

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years at a single company, demonstrating sustained ownership and progression.
• Experience owning customer-facing workflows.
• Meaningful experience helping a product or system scale from 1N, not only building 01 prototypes.
• Strong product judgment and a demonstrated sense of engineering and product craft.
• Experience leading important technical initiatives and increasing the effectiveness of other engineers.
• Strong frontend fundamentals and solid experience architecting and owning backend services, APIs, and data models.
• Experience operating production software, including testing, observability, CI/CD, and incident response.
• The ability to take an open-ended problem, form a clear technical approach, and execute with limited direction.
• Comfort working on-site with the team in New York City.

We care more about the depth of your ownership and judgment than exact keyword alignment with every part of our stack.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React, Next.js, GraphQL, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with Postgres, event-driven architectures, Kafka, or Temporal.
• Experience building AI-powered products or production LLM integrations.
• Experience at a product-led or high-growth technology company.
• History of leading migrations, platform improvements, reliability work, or other team-wide technical initiatives.

Culture

• Passionate about Attention's mission and deeply empathetic toward our users.
• Excited to rethink how software is built in an environment where agents are active participants in the development process.
• Comfortable working closely with product, design, leadership, and customers.
• Takes responsibility for outcomes, not only assigned tasks.
• Holds strong opinions while remaining open to better ideas.
• Cares deeply about quality while making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments and helps others navigate ambiguity.

Our Tech Stack

Backend: Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Temporal
Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, GraphQL
Observability and Infrastructure: AWS-native tooling, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines

Prior experience with every technology in our stack is not required. We value strong fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to learn quickly.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Your choice of new equipment and software.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• High autonomy and ownership from idea through production.