As Head of Engineering, you will lead a distributed team of seven engineers while remaining 50-70% hands-on in the code. Reporting to the CEO, you'll architect AI-native systems using LLMs and computer vision to replace legacy government processes. You will own engineering execution end-to-end, defining the technical culture for a rapidly scaling organization.
Head of Engineering at Infilla
Join Infilla, a profitable $5M-backed GovTech startup, as Head of Engineering to lead the transition of local government into an agentic AI operating system. Working directly with the CEO in San Francisco, you'll manage a distributed team while remaining 50-70% hands-on in the code. With customers like NYC and San Francisco, your work directly translates into more homes being built. This high-impact role offers a $215K–$260K salary plus meaningful equity and a path to technical co-founder partnership as you scale production AI systems that automate complex permit processing for millions.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$215k-$260k + Equity
Company
Infilla
Role overview
GovTech12 employees
Infilla is a San Francisco-based GovTech company on a mission to help more housing get built by modernizing how government agencies handle permitting. We build cloud-based software that replaces outdated, manual processes with something that actually works — for the agencies running it and the residents and businesses waiting on it. We're an early-stage team doing work with real stakes: the kind where what you ship actually changes how government functions.
What you will do
- Own engineering execution and delivery end-to-end, maintaining a 50-70% individual contributor load while scaling a distributed team across the US and Nigeria.
- Architect and implement agentic workflows using React, Node, and Postgres, leveraging LLMs, computer vision, and voice AI to automate permit processing.
- Partner with the CEO to make critical architectural decisions that protect the company’s moat and ensure engineering becomes a primary competitive advantage.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience leading engineering teams of 6+ at early-stage B2B startups, with a track record of shipping 0-to-1 products to enterprise customers.
- Expert hands-on fluency across the full stack (React, Node, Postgres, AWS) and deep experience building production-grade data infrastructure and AI-native systems.
- Strong background in managing distributed or offshore engineering teams and a desire to work in a high-ownership, hybrid San Francisco-based environment.
Why this role is remarkable
- Path to technical co-founder partnership for a leader who proves their impact through execution and building a high-velocity engineering culture.
- Work on high-leverage agentic AI systems—not just chatbots—that directly solve the housing crisis by automating government bottlenecks for millions of citizens.
- Join a durable, profitable business with zero customer churn and contracts that expand annually, backed by elite investors like Bloomberg Beta and Base10.
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