Director of Engineering

What You’ll Do:

Build & Lead: Hire and mentor a world-class engineering team (starting small, but growing fast).

Ship Fast & Smart: Drive technical execution - design, architecture, and hands-on coding when needed.

Solve Hard Problems: Optimize AI agents, scale infrastructure, and ensure reliability for real-world restaurant operations.

Shape the Future: Influence product strategy and work closely with founders, product, and sales teams.

Drive Innovation: Foster a culture of experimentation - explore AI breakthroughs, automation tech, and smarter ways to solve restaurant challenges.

Build for Scale: Architect resilient systems that grow with us, from early-stage chaos to enterprise reliability.

AI Agent Architecture: Design and oversee our agent orchestration framework, ensuring scalability and reliability

Fix What’s Broken: When things go wrong (and they will), you’ll dive deep - debugging, optimizing, and leading the team through tough technical fires.

Make It Faster & Smarter: Continuously improve performance, uptime, and scalability - because restaurants can’t afford downtime.

Who You Are:

10+ years engineering experience with 5+ years leading technical teams

Technical leadership: Hands-on ability to guide architecture reviews and solve complex agent system challenges

Startup Hustle: You’ve worked at early-stage companies (our size or smaller) and thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments.

Leader, Not Just a Manager: You love mentoring engineers, but you’re still hands-on, no ivory tower leadership here.

Scaler Mindset: You’ve helped grow teams from 5 → 30+ engineers and systems from prototype to production. Grew engineering teams and systems through hypergrowth phases

AI/ML or Automation Experience (Bonus): You’ve worked on AI agents, automation, or high-scale distributed systems.