VP of Technology

About the role

This is a hands-on VP of Technology position leading up to 10 engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and performance optimization. You'll own the technical direction of Journee's real-time conversational AI platform that powers interactive experiences for enterprise clients like BMW, H&M, and Siemens.

What you'll do

• Own overall system architecture across conversational AI systems, voice/avatar pipelines, and developer platform APIs
• Drive cloud infrastructure strategy and ensure scalability, reliability, and enterprise-grade security
• Optimize real-time AI inference for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency
• Lead API architecture and SDK strategy for the developer platform
• Build scalable abstractions for agent creation and deployment
• Lead and mentor a team of up to 10 engineers across ML, backend, frontend, and infrastructure
• Attract and hire strong technical talent while setting culture of ownership and accountability
• Review architecture and critical code paths, prototype high-impact work

What you'll need

• 8-12+ years in engineering with leadership experience managing 5+ engineers
• Strong cloud architecture background (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architecture
• Experience running ML systems in production
• Strong full-stack understanding (backend + frontend)
• Experience working directly with founders
• Builder mentality with high ownership and execution energy
• Product-minded approach, comfortable with ambiguity

Nice to have

• ML inference performance optimization experience
• Real-time/low-latency systems experience
• Building developer platforms or APIs at scale
• Startup or scale-up background

What they offer

• Revenue-generating AI platform with real product-market validation
• Direct impact on architecture and company culture
• Opportunity to grow into CTO role
• Work with enterprise clients in conversational AI space