Company Overview

Archera empowers organizations of all sizes to optimize their cloud costs through unique, short-term, insured GRI (Guaranteed Reserved Instance) and GSP (Guaranteed Savings Plan) commitments. Hundreds of customers rely on Archera's innovative FinTech solutions to increase their cloud ROI while accelerating revenue objectives and service agility.

Archera's unique cloud rate insurance products and free FinOps platform enable teams to accurately predict and plan infrastructure growth, maximize commitment-based savings, and hedge against market demands and evolving cloud service provider offerings and incentives. Archera works closely with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and a broad network of software and services partners to help each customer execute upon a bespoke, financially-prudent cloud growth and success strategy.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to spearhead the development of one of Archera’s most strategic initiatives at the intersection of LLMs/data science, developer tools, and cloud optimization. Acting as a “startup within a startup,” this role will own a revenue-linked product end-to-end — from ideation through launch and scale — while managing an international team of engineers and collaborating cross functionally with supporting teams in recruiting/design/marketing/sales/customer success. Reporting directly to the CEO, the Lead Product Engineer will blend hands-on technical contributions with product leadership, and partner closely with go-to-market teams to ensure adoption and commercial success. This is a unique opportunity to shape a dev tools product with AI/LLM integrations at its core, built to accelerate cloud engineering workflows, while building and leading a high-impact engineering organization in a fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of a strategic product directly tied to company revenue, from concept through launch and scale.
• Contribute directly to the codebase while setting engineering direction and best practices.
• Hire, Manage and mentor a distributed, international team of engineers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Marketing on launches, GTM campaigns, and customer engagement.
• Define, track, and execute against key KPIs and performance targets, reporting progress directly to the CEO.
• Drive innovation in AI/LLM applications within the product to maintain competitive differentiation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of overall professional experience
• 2+ years in a technical role (early-stage or founder experience strongly preferred).
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, React, Python, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Exposure to data science workflows and familiarity with AI/LLM tools.
• Demonstrated ability to own products from ideation to scale, ideally with measurable business impact.
• Experience leading or managing remote/distributed engineering teams.
• Strong collaboration skills with GTM or commercial teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with the developer tools ecosystem.
• Track record of open source contributions or community involvement.
• Experience with marketing or selling new products in an early-stage environment.
• Ability to build and iterate on design assets in Figma

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity plan
• Opportunities for greatly accelerated professional development and advancement within the company
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation and excellence
• Full Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Unlimited PTO
• $75/month towards your cell phone bill
• Yearly wellness stipend

Location
This is a hybrid role with in-office time based out of either Bellevue, WA or New York City, NY working directly in-person with the CEO and other executives.