New York, United States, New York Remote Full-time Lead Base pay $90K – $108K / year
Experience
9+ years The roleWhat you’ll doWhat we’re looking forHow hiring worksAbout AwanaApply
The role
Founding-level, hands-on engineering role building production AI infrastructure and backend systems to power our client next phase of growth. Work directly with the CEO to design and ship asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, search/recommendation, and enterprise delivery APIs.
What you’ll do
- Architect and build large-scale data pipelines for 3M+ assets
- Design and operate 24/7 production AI agents for metadata generation and enrichment
- Implement search, retrieval, and recommendation systems
- Build enterprise delivery APIs and integration infrastructure
- Create human-in-the-loop review and QA automation workflows
- Optimize AWS costs and scale cloud infrastructure
What we’re looking for
- AWS Bedrock
- Python
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- AI agents
- Data pipelines
- Distributed systems
- OpenSearch
Preferred:
- Founding-level role with direct CEO partnership and high ownership
- Build production AI systems at large scale (millions of assets, 24/7 agents)
- Work with enterprise integrations for major platforms (Google, Adobe, Canva, Microsoft) Required
AWS BedrockPythonNode.jsTypeScriptAI agentsData pipelinesDistributed systemsOpenSearchLambdaECSTerraformS3PostgreSQLKafkaVector searchEKS Important
Golang
Nice to have
GolangDatabricksSnowflakeKafkaVector searchTerraformKubernetes
Requirements
Languages
EnglishSpanish
The team
Founding-level, small and fast-moving engineering team working directly with the CEO to architect and ship end-to-end AI infrastructure, agents, and delivery systems.
Team size: 15
How hiring works
Step 1 — Technical interview with the CEO (15–20 min); Step 2 — Scenario-based interview with the tech lead (problem-solving & past experience); Step 3 — Culture fit interview (sometimes skipped).
About Awana
our client is an AI-powered creative infrastructure company managing millions of images and templates across a global network of creatives and serving enterprise clients like Google, Adobe, Canva, and Microsoft.
Applications go to the hiring team
The essentials
Base pay $90K – $108K / year Employment Full-time Level Lead
Location
New York, United States, New York Work model Remote Visa sponsorship Not offered Team size 15
After you apply
- 1 You get a confirmation email
It carries a link to check this application any time. No account, no password.
- 2 A person reads it
Applications go straight to the hiring team, not to a keyword filter.
- 3 If it fits, we reach out
Usually to book a short intro call as the first step.
- 4 Either way, you hear back
Including when the answer is no.
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