Head of Engineering

About

About Varick Agents

Custom AI agents for enterprise

Requirements

Must-have

• 6+ years of software engineering, including real-time experience leading engineers as a lead, manager, or founding engineer accountable for a team's output
• Proven engineering leadership, having built, grown, and mentored engineering teams and owned delivery across multiple teams or workstreams at once
• Deep experience building and shipping AI agents in production, across orchestration, tool use, retrieval, structured extraction, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop, not just prompt demos
• Strong distributed-systems instincts, with depth in multi-tenant backend systems, data modeling, and enterprise integration, including real APIs, OAuth, connectors, and enterprise ERP and CRM software
• Comfortable owning infrastructure (Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud) and operating software across many deployments and versions, including release management, staged rollout, rollback, monitoring, alerting, and on-call

Nice-to-have

• Forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering experience, talking directly to the people whose process is being automated
• Background in process mining, workflow automation, or enterprise process discovery
• Previous founding engineer or CTO experience at a venture-backed startup
• Experience operating in enterprise environments with real security, compliance, and reliability requirements (SOC 2, audit, on-call/incident response), or published research/open-source contributions in agents and applied AI

Benefits & perks

• Founding team scope and ownership of entire technical vision
• Direct path to CTO
• Build platform, not features
• 100% deployment rate with immediate measurable impact
• Compounding leverage from every client deployment
• Direct access to Fortune 5000 decision-makers
• Work on systems that improve with every customer

Interview process

1. 1Application Review
2. 2Screen
3. 3Vibe Check
4. 4First Round
5. 5Second Round
6. 6On Site
7. 7Offer
8. 8Hired