Head of Software (ML & Web)

What you will be doing:

• Oversee thearchitecture, development, and delivery of all software components, spanning web applications, backend systems, and Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure.
• Be a key partner to the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science,ensuring software is seamlessly integrated with physical systems, user experience, and domain expertise.
• Define, implement, and scale thesoftware architecture across web, backend, and ML systems.
• Maintain strong engineering standards for code quality, security, testing, and deployment.
• Lead key technical initiatives, contributing code and architecture reviews.
• Drive integration of software with hardware systems pipelines.
• Build, lead, and mentora multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Establish effective workflows for development, QA, deployment, and iteration.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance engineering culture.
• Partner with People/HR in hiring and scaling the team.
• Collaborate closely with the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science to ensure end-to-end product integration.
• Translate business and research needs into scalable software solutions.
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Support leadership in communicating technical vision to investors, partners, and stakeholders.

Experience you will need:

• 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 3 in a leadership role.
• Proven expertise inweb application development (frontend + backend).
• Hands‑on experience withmachine learning workflows and/or data‑heavy systems.
• Strong understanding ofcloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Experience collaborating with cross‑functional hardware or science‑focused teams.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills.