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Founding Tech Lead | Early-Stage AI Portfolio Company

Peak Xv Partners

Peak Xv Partners

Software Engineering, Data Science
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · India · Karnataka, India
Posted on Aug 28, 2025

One of our early-stage AI portfolio companies building in the healthcare space is looking for an experienced engineer to join them as a Founding Tech Lead.

Responsibilities

  • Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor the existing team while scaling to 10+ engineers
  • Build reliable agent orchestration using Temporal workflows and modern agentic frameworks.
  • Lead hiring for critical technical roles, establish engineering culture, and build processes that scale
  • Take end-to-end responsibility for system reliability, performance, and compliance in revenue-critical environments
  • Navigate HIPAA compliance, healthcare regulations, and audit requirements at the architectural level

Qualifications

  • Former founder strongly preferred or significant early-stage startup experience (pre-Series A)
  • 5-7 years building production systems that handle real user problems
  • Built at least one indie project involving AI/automation
  • Strong engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with Python, workflow orchestration tools, AWS ecosystem
  • Experience attracting and managing high-quality talent
  • Comfortable with healthcare/fintech-level regulatory requirements

Please apply to this role directly on LinkedIn. This is the only way to be considered for this role. Please do not DM any of our stakeholders about this position.