Tech Lead
About this role
Leaping AI is building voice and texting AI agents for the home improvement industry and seeks a Tech Lead to scale engineering impact and operations. This role partners closely with the CTO and senior leadership to drive architecture, processes, and team productivity while contributing code and technical direction.
What youll do
- Manage the engineering team on a day-to-day basis and remove blockers.
- Guide the team on architectural decisions and system design.
- Have final say on task prioritization and delivery tradeoffs.
- Review code and RFCs to maintain quality and consistency.
- Set up and enforce engineering best practices and processes.
- Act as a liaison and sparring partner to CEO, CTO, Director of Sales, and Head of CS.
- Contribute actively to the codebase (approx. 20–30% of your time).
- Raise the overall productivity and maturity of the engineering organization.
What Leaping AI is looking for
- 6+ years of professional experience, with most recent roles as staff engineer or tech lead.
- Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
- Strong background in software architecture, cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure), and full-stack development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and conversational AI is required; prior conversational AI leadership is a strong plus.
- Experience in fast-growing startups / scale-ups and shipping under pressure.
- Excellent project management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
- Strong people skills and business acumen; you consider how technical work impacts revenue and customers.
- Able and willing to work in San Francisco, CA, and commit to in-office hours as described.
Company at a glance
Leaping AI provides self-improving voice AI agents for business, enabling natural phone and web interactions, automating up to 70% of repetitive calls across ~100k daily calls with 90% CSAT, backed by Y Combinator and real-time autonomous learning.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Small team that moves fast.
Operates out of an in-person office in San Francisco.
Rapid growth, doubling in size during the YC batch.
Heavy focus on R&D and solving complex problems in real-time voice processing.
Autonomously learning from interactions to improve performance.
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