Head of Engineering

1 month ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Pavago

Pavago

Pavago specializes in connecting small and medium-sized businesses with skilled offshore talent from Pakistan and Latin America, offering a streamlined recruitment process that enables the hiring, onboarding, and payment of remote employees at signific...

IT Services
Founded 2023

Description

  • Own backend architecture and the codebase across 14+ independently deployed microservices, applying Clean Architecture and DDD principles.
  • Design, build, and maintain a .NET 8.0 / C# backend (ASP.NET Core, EF Core) and write production code daily.
  • Deliver new features, refactor existing systems, and identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Design and operate production-grade AI/LLM pipelines across multiple providers, optimizing prompts and workflows for batch processing, personalization, and segmentation at scale.
  • Manage rate limits, failover strategies, and cost optimization across AI providers to maintain pipeline stability.
  • Manage MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB in production; oversee bulk writes, caching strategies, event streams, and analytics pipelines to ensure data consistency and performance.
  • Own Linux-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, service deployments, centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and uptime tracking.
  • Manage 25+ third-party API integrations and design retry, fallback, and graceful degradation strategies to ensure system resilience when external providers fail or degrade.
  • Lead and mentor a small engineering team through code reviews, architectural guidance, and by setting and enforcing engineering standards, workflows, and best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with the founder on product direction and technical strategy and proactively identify and mitigate reliability and scalability risks.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in .NET 8.0, C#, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core.
  • Experience with distributed systems and independently deployed microservices.
  • Strong production experience with MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
  • Proven experience building and operating AI/LLM systems at scale and familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
  • Hands-on DevOps experience managing Linux servers, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments.
  • Experience managing large numbers (25+) of third-party API integrations.
  • Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, incident prevention, and reliability engineering.
  • Experience leading and mentoring small engineering teams and enforcing engineering standards.
  • Comfortable being the most experienced technical person on the team and thriving in early-stage startup environments.
  • Strong English communication skills and availability to work U.S. business hours.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote position (work U.S. business hours).
  • Hands-on leadership role with daily production coding and high technical ownership at an early-stage SaaS company.
  • Direct collaboration with the founder and strong influence over product and technical strategy.
  • Opportunity to own architecture, reliability, and AI systems at scale.

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