Celeco Labs

Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.

This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.

What you will do

• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.

• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.

• Write production code and review code written by others.

• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.

• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.

• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.

• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.

• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.

• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.

What we are looking for

• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.

• Experience building and running production systems.

• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.

• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.

• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.

• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.

• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.

Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.

How to apply

Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.

Build AI where the work actually happens.

Celeco works inside real businesses to understand critical workflows, ship production AI systems and stay through adoption.

We are hiring our first Intelligence Architect (Forward-Deployed AI Engineer).

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Full-time · Remote-first · Optional hybrid in Bengaluru

At least one year of professional engineering experience. Customer travel when the work requires it.

The role

An Intelligence Architect enters a customer environment with an unfinished question and leaves behind a working, measurable system.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the boundary of product, operations and customer delivery. You will learn the domain, inspect the existing systems and data, decide what should be built, and write the code that puts it into production.

What you will own

• Interview and shadow the people doing the work, then map the real workflow, including hand-offs, exceptions and workarounds.
• Understand the customer's application stack, APIs, data, identity model, security constraints and deployment environment.
• Turn business goals into a technical scope, system design, delivery plan and measures of success.
• Build across the stack: AI workflows, data pipelines, integrations, backend services and the interfaces people use.
• Choose the simplest reliable approach. The answer may combine agents, retrieval, rules and conventional software.
• Create evals from representative cases, define quality and failure metrics, inspect traces, red-team the system and set launch thresholds.
• Make practical trade-offs across accuracy, latency, cost, privacy, security and speed.
• Take prototypes into production with tests, monitoring, access controls, documentation and a plan for failure and recovery.
• Work beside customer teams during rollout and improve the system until it becomes part of the workflow.
• Turn what works into reusable components, evaluation sets and playbooks for future Celeco deployments.

You will probably thrive here if

• You have at least one year of professional software or product engineering experience.
• You have shipped a real system used by other people and can explain what you owned, what broke and what you changed.
• You are strong in Python or TypeScript and comfortable moving across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, databases and cloud services.
• You have built with language or multimodal models and understand prompting, structured outputs, retrieval, tool use and model failure modes.
• You use Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or similar tools as part of your engineering workflow, while still reviewing, testing and understanding the code you ship.
• You can create an evaluation set, choose useful quality metrics and improve a system through error analysis instead of prompt guesswork.
• You can speak with an operator, an engineering team and a senior leader without losing the thread of the problem.
• You work well with incomplete requirements, write clearly and surface risks early.
• You care about whether people use what you build and whether it changes a business outcome.
• You can commit full-time and travel to customer sites when discovery or rollout is better done in person.

Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD, observability, enterprise integrations, authentication or security is useful. We do not expect one person to arrive knowing every framework, cloud or industry.

What you will get

• Direct ownership of live customer problems from discovery through production.
• Close collaboration with Celeco's founders and customer leadership teams.
• Exposure to different industries, operating models and technical environments.
• The freedom to choose the technical approach and the responsibility to prove that it works.
• A role in defining Celeco's engineering methods, reusable systems and technical culture while the company is early.
• A remote-first setup, with the option to work together in Bengaluru.

If the work sounds like you but your background is unconventional, apply. We care more about what you have built, how you think and how quickly you learn than pedigree.