Backend Software Team Lead

🕒 August 4

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HavocAI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2024-09

Logistics • Manufacturing • Defense

HavocAI is a developer of collaborative autonomy for maritime operations, offering a modular software and vehicle stack that enables fleets of autonomous maritime systems to perform contested logistics, sensor fusion and tracking, domain awareness, and escort-and-engage missions. Their product suite includes onboard autonomy (HAVOC OS), scalable communications (HAVOC CLOUD), and a handheld operator interface (HAVOC CONTROL), marketed as a single solution for theater-scaled security and rapid deployment. HavocAI emphasizes real-time, team-led autonomous solutions that run across diverse environments and supports both hardware (autonomous vessels) and software deployment.

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, driving execution and technical excellence • Manage hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching, and regular 1:1s • Set engineering standards and guide architectural direction with the Backend Tech Lead • Own the backend roadmap and delivery with Product and Engineering Leadership • Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go • Architect distributed systems supporting high throughput, reliability, and real-time operations • Define service boundaries, APIs, and data models • Optimize systems for performance, scalability, resilience, uptime, and operational reliability • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in distributed systems and concurrency-heavy workloads • Partner with Frontend, Platform, Autonomy, and Embedded teams • Support end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure • Contribute to system-level architecture across the technology stack • Enforce secure development practices • Maintain standards for code quality, testing, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering • Strong expertise in Go and building highly concurrent systems • Proven people management experience, including directly managing, developing, and reviewing engineers • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale • Strong API design and system architecture skills • Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments • Deep understanding of performance optimization, data structures, and system design • Ability to drive projects from concept to production • Must be a U.S. Citizen • Eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance, if required • Nice to have: experience in IoT, robotics, or distributed hardware systems • Nice to have: strong networking fundamentals and debugging experience • Nice to have: experience with AWS or other cloud-based infrastructure • Nice to have: familiarity with embedded systems or hardware integration

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families • Life Insurance (Employer Paid) • Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching) • Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum • Equity Package • Work / Home Office Stipend • Global Entry • 16 Week Paid Parental Leave • Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend • Bonus offered • Equity offered