Head of Engineering

Visalaw.ai is a pioneering B2B SaaS startup transforming the immigration law industry with cutting-edge artificial intelligence. We’re building AI solutions that streamline complex legal workflows, making immigration law more accessible, efficient, and impactful for legal professionals and their clients. Our mission is to harness AI’s transformative power to create lasting change in legal technology.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a full-time Head of Engineering to lead product development as we scale. This is a foundational leadership role with the opportunity to shape our engineering culture from the ground up. You’ll work directly with our CEO, guide a talented distributed development team, and play a central role in building our AI-powered platform. This role can be fully remote.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor our existing development team, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.
• Define and implement engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality controls.
• Architect scalable, maintainable systems that enable rapid product iteration.
• Drive decision-making across the full stack, with a particular focus on frontend excellence.

Product Development

• Translate business requirements into robust technical specifications.
• Lead the development of our AI-powered legal tech platform from concept to production.
• Seamlessly integrate AI/ML capabilities into intuitive, user-facing applications.
• Continuously optimize performance, reliability, and scalability as our customer base grows.

Strategic Planning

• Build and execute a technical roadmap aligned with company objectives.
• Research, evaluate, and implement new technologies, frameworks, and AI tools to stay ahead of the curve.
• Manage technical debt, infrastructure investments, and scaling initiatives.
• Provide technical insight during product strategy discussions.
  

Team Management

• Coordinate with a distributed development team across multiple time zones.
• Establish clear communication, project management, and delivery processes.
• Identify skill gaps and lead recruiting, training, or vendor selection as needed.
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Technical Expertise

• 7+ years in software development, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership.
• Strong frontend skills (React or Vue.js); experience deploying via Vercel is a plus.
• Full-stack experience with backend APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in AWS services (e.g., Textract, S3/Cloud Storage).
• Experience integrating and deploying AI/ML models in production (especially OpenAI APIs).
• Familiarity with vector databases and OCR tools.
  

Leadership & Management

• Proven track record leading remote, distributed teams.
• Experience managing both in-house developers and external contractors.
• Skilled in planning, prioritizing, and delivering in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communicator, able to bridge technical and business discussions.
  

Industry Experience

• Background in B2B SaaS, ideally in early-stage or growth-stage startups.
• Experience scaling products from MVP to market-ready production.
• Understanding of modern DevOps practices and full software lifecycle.
• Comfortable working with authentication systems and metadata-driven architectures.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with document processing, workflow automation, or case management systems.
• Hands-on with AI model training, fine-tuning, or prompt engineering.
• Previous role as a founding engineer or technical co-founder.

• Opportunity to build and lead the engineering function at a high-growth AI startup. 

• Direct influence on product roadmap. 

• Competitive salary and benefits package (insurance and 401k). 

• Fully remote flexibility.