Engineering Lead

Who We Are! Back in 2019, spiderSilk was born with a bold idea: build a regional, sovereign cybersecurity IP that could stand tall on the global stage. Our mission? To shake up the way organizations protect their ever-changing digital worlds with continuous, intelligent, and autonomous security that doesn’t miss a beat. We’re a global mix of curious minds, problem-solvers, and passionate builders, all united by one goal: making the internet a safer place for everyone. Around here, we thrive on vision, energy, and a strong sense of ownership. If this feels like your kind of crew, you’ll probably fit right in. About the role Past projects you would have led: Building AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in SQL DB or Elastic Adding Redis queues and a worker container to our stack to execute async tasks Come up with a new architecture for our ingestion pipeline with the goal to increase throughput and cut cost Building SDKs or APIs with high focus on DX Requirements You should be familiar with a majority of these but we trust that you can pick up a new tech stack quickly. AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3 Kafka Frontend in React Typescript Qualifications Experience in maintenance of highly reliable and scaling infrastructure as well as building AI Agents scalable and production-ready solutions (with context engineering, evals, monitoring) Strong leadership skills 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in product development Hard worker and thrive working and leading a small and accountable team Previous startup or founding experience Bonus Experience with or interest in API, SDK design and DX AI experience Impressive achievements from previous careers or side projects