Tech Lead (Engineering)

### **The Opportunity**

Chronus is the market leader in enterprise mentoring and connection software, trusted by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Under new leadership and backed by private\-equity investment, we are expanding beyond mentoring into a broader platform for how organizations develop, engage, and retain their people.

We are an AI\-native engineering organization — coding agents, automated review, and machine\-assisted design are core to how we ship, not a side experiment. You will join a small, seasoned team of engineers with deep technical backgrounds, a high bar, and the autonomy to move fast. We are looking for a Tech Lead to be the technical anchor among them.

This is a hands\-on individual\-contributor role: you lead through architecture, code, design review, and influence rather than through direct reports — the person the team reasons with when a design is hard, a system is slow, or the path forward is unclear. It is built to grow, with a natural path into a Principal Engineer or Architect role as your scope expands. Required experience 7\-10 years.

### **What You Will Own**

• *System Design \& Technical Direction**

• Own the high\- and low\-level design of complex initiatives — from system architecture down to component and data\-model detail — with security, scale, and cost\-effectiveness in mind.
• Set the technical direction: the build\-vs\-buy, schema, and service\-boundary calls, documented clearly enough that the team moves fast behind you.
• Run design reviews that raise the bar — pushing back on accidental complexity and favoring evolution over rewrites.

• *Hands\-On Delivery**

• Stay in the code: write production code and own the hardest parts of the most important work.
• Proactively review pull requests to hold design and code quality to a high bar across the team.
• Own performance and reliability — profile, fix the real bottleneck, and carry the production workloads and incidents that follow.

• *AI\-Native Engineering**

• Build software that writes software — extend Chronus's agent tooling, code generation, and the internal scaffolding that compounds the team's output.
• Work fluently with AI coding agents — decompose work for them, correct their output, and build the guardrails that keep agent\-assisted development fast and safe.
• Optimize the development life cycle and CI/CD pipeline, shortening the path from commit to production without lowering the bar.

### **What We Are Looking For**

• *Experience \& Track Record**

• A track record of shipping production software, with a meaningful stretch at a lead technical level.
• Full\-stack range — equally at home in backend services and a modern JavaScript front end.
• Strong system\-design instincts at both high and low levels: you turn an underspecified problem into an architecture that scales and stays operable.

• *Skills \& Mindset**

• Builds software that writes software: agent tooling/automation that compounds the team's output.
• AI\-agent fluency: works with AI coding agents daily and holds their output to production quality.
• Generative AI: hands\-on integrating LLMs, with a realistic view of evaluation, cost, and latency.
• Hands\-on and pragmatic: leads from inside the work; prefers simple, maintainable solutions.

• *Strong Advantages**

• Multi\-tenant B2B SaaS experience, and the realities of serving enterprise customers.
• Exposure to a cloud PaaS such as AWS, and the building blocks behind scalable services.
• Familiarity with Rails and React, or a comparable server\-side framework and modern SPA front end.
• A record of driving developer\-experience, CI/CD, or platform initiatives to completion.