CTO at Second (W23)
$200K - $250K  β€’  10.00% - 15.00%
AI-Native Enterprise Codebase Maintenance
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
6+ years
About Second

Automated migrations and upgrades for enterprise codebases

About the role
Skills: JavaScript, Kubernetes, Python, React, TypeScript, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

πŸ‘“ Vision:

Our vision is to lead the AI revolution for software engineering maintenance, automating all engineering grunt work tasks with AI. This mirrors the transformative impact of the industrial revolution, where manual labor was automated. By shifting routine tasks to AI, we aim to empower human engineers to focus on what they do best, creating new innovative software, faster than ever before.

πŸš€ Mission:

Our mission is to build a secure cloud-based platform that enables every engineering team on Earth to automate grunt work projects and tasks.

πŸ› οΈ Role & Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership for all parts of R&D, promoting best practices and setting coding standards. Innovate in the AI agent code generation space. Spearhead the development, design, and deployment of our secure cloud-based platform. Collaborate closely with our passionate founding team to craft the future roadmap. Ensure seamless deployment of our AI agents into our enterprise customer VPCs. Dive deep into the challenges of AI-driven codebase maintenance, creating solutions that are both innovative and practical.

🌟 Requirements:

Deep experiences with Machine Learning, building and fine-tuning LLM pipelines, Proficient in AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Python, React and Next, and enterprise cloud and distributed systems. Strong problem-solving skills and the guts to take on mind-bending challenges. A team player mindset, ready to collaborate and elevate our small but mighty team. Reside in the Bay Area and can commit to in-office collaboration 2 days a week.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ U.S. Work authorization:

We are currently unable to sponsor H-1B Visas

⚫⚫ Values:

Team > Individual

We grow and innovate without the constraints of personal pride. This humility paves the way for collaborative problem-solving and ensures decisions are made for the greater good of the company's mission, not individual status.

Action > Words

Prioritizing actions over words empowers team members to demonstrate their commitment through results, rather than intentions or promises, fostering a culture of accountability and execution. This value is critical for our success, as it shifts the focus from what could be done to what has been done.

Focus > Distractions

We prioritize work ruthlessly so that we have the highest impact on the company's goals, ensuring that efforts are focused and strategic. This focus on impactful work eliminates distractions and builds a resilient team culture that thrives on delivering value to customers consistently.

⚫⚫ Culture:

Here at Second, we have a hacker culture, where rapid experimentation and delivering real solutions to customer problems are our life blood. We are developers serving developers, operating at the forefront of the AI code gen revolution.

www.second.dev

Interview Process
  1. Phone screen with our recruiter, Justin.
  2. Phone screen with Eric Rowell (Founder & CEO).
  3. Meet the rest of the team. Coding interviews and system design questions.
  4. Final interview with Eric Rowell. Offer made that evening.

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