Overview

• Reports To: Director of Engineering
• Works With: A competent engineering team and cross-functional Product and Design
• Track: Full-time individual contributor · Technical leadership (no direct reports)
• Experience: 7–10 years in software engineering
• Compensation: Competitive base + performance bonus (shared during the process)

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.

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 SDLC 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.