The company is looking to solve high-impact problems where no off-the-shelf solution exists by developing innovative platforms. They need a technical anchor to guide the design and development of these platforms, ensuring technical excellence, scalability, and alignment with business needs.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, or full-stack platform development.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments (containers, serverless, CI/CD pipelines).
- Familiarity with AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, applied ML).
- Familiarity and hands-on exposure with MCP Servers and highly accessible and available API platforms
- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale
- Cloud-native, global scaling experience (AWS and their various tool offerings)
- Understanding of the mindset of “Fail Fast, Learn Fast” and continuous improvement
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of platforms that solve high-impact problems where no off-the-shelf solution exists.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction, delivering production-grade systems from prototype to platform.
- Design systems that can evolve rapidly while maintaining reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Guide engineers across levels, setting standards for engineering excellence and fostering a culture of technical depth.
- Rapid prototyping and driving projects from concept to delivery, ensuring ongoing ownership of the platforms.
- Embed best practices in CI/CD, observability, and security from the start, ensuring production-readiness and support.
Other
- Serve as the technical anchor of our internal innovation team.
- Guide a cross-disciplinary team, mentor engineers across levels, and partner closely with Engineering Leadership and business stakeholders.
- Partner with product, design, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to define scope, clarify tradeoffs, and ensure success.
- Ability to lead technical direction while remaining hands-on.
- Strong communicator, able to explain tradeoffs to executives and mentor engineers.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, high-autonomy environments.
- Track record of delivering complex solutions that align technical strategy with business needs.
- Fully Remote: This role has been designated as fully remote, meaning it is expected to be performed from a non-Versant worksite, typically an employee’s residence.
- Occasional travel is required and can range from within the country (typical, various times of the year) to global (not typical but still possible).
