Airis Labs is building a platform that creates intelligence out of videos.

We are using state-of-the-art AI technologies to achieve results that are exceptional in our domain.

Airis was founded by experienced startup operators, and backed by world class investors.

We are seeking a talented and motivated Engineering Team Leader to join our growing team.

As the leader of the SPEED Engineering team, you will be responsible for building and architecting infrastructures that will serve the company's R&D and AI teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a team of 4 experienced Engineers
• Initiate and own complex development projects, work with stakeholders to define features, and scope, and guide decisions and tradeoffs
• Collaborate with staff & principal engineers on cross-company initiatives.
• Inspire and motivate the team members to achieve the career-growth goals you set together.
• Own and optimize the team’s quarterly plan based on long-term plans, well-groomed backlogs, and immediate operational needs
• Solve problems with fellow engineers by understanding their needs and coming up with both short-term workarounds and long-term solutions.

Requirements :

• 5+ years of experience writing and maintaining distributed backend systems
• At least 3 years of experience managing a team of 3+ engineers
• Passion and experience overseeing a product’s lifecycle - from vision through requirements gathering to CI/CD cycles
• Mentorship mindset and passion to guide engineers towards achieving their career growth goals
• Experience designing and working with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with various data stores and pipelines such as VectorDBs, Postgres, MariaDB, FAISS
• On prem experience
• Worked closely with AI teams
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Continuous improvement mindset and a can-do approach