Lead Engineer, Internal Tools & Business Systems

Aquaria•Austin, TX

8d•Remote

About The Position

Aquaria is hiring a technical lead to own the internal tools used by its sales, operations, and customer success teams, along with the integrations, data flows, and developers behind them. The role partners with leaders across the company to decide what to build, contributes code regularly, and is accountable for whether these systems help the business run effectively. Aquaria builds machines that make clean drinking water from air and describes its mission as safeguarding and unlocking a sustainable future for clean water. The company is backed by investors including Mistletoe, Soma Capital, Bow Capital, Ciri Ventures, HF0, and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt. Its technology was selected among TIME's Best Inventions of 2024 and received an Honorable Mention for Developing-World Technology in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. The team builds with AI coding tools and expects this lead to understand where they are useful and where their output needs closer review. The company favors shipping working versions early and iterating. Most weeks involve regular hours, but outages affecting a system the team depends on are addressed the same day. Communication is often written and asynchronous. Remote candidates must have working-hour overlap with US Central time.

Requirements

A track record of shipping production software that others relied on as the primary engineer, including work from the past year.
Experience leading other engineers, including contractors, by scoping work, reviewing code, and owning results.
Daily hands-on use of AI-assisted development.
Experience building third-party API integrations and data pipelines with data quality checks.
Comfort with relational databases, including writing queries to debug data issues across connected systems.
Experience migrating data from spreadsheets and legacy tools into a system of record.
Experience with access management and security practices for production systems.
Experience deploying, monitoring, and recovering production systems without data loss.
Strong written communication and a track record of working with non-technical stakeholders and vendors.
Remote candidates must have working hours that overlap with US Central time.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Supabase, BigQuery, or Fivetran.
Experience with HubSpot, Aircall, or Salesmsg.
Experience with Docusign or CompanyCam.
Prefers shipping a working version quickly and iterating rather than waiting for a perfect version.
Can turn ambiguous requests into a plan, scope, and date.
Anticipates problems and addresses root causes.

Responsibilities

Partner with sales, operations, customer success, and RevOps to set priorities and turn team needs into a clear roadmap.
Build and maintain internal tools, and drive adoption so teams use them to perform their work.
Build and maintain integrations and data pipelines connecting SaaS tools, and keep data accurate and synchronized.
Establish a single source of truth for core business data, including customers, deals, installations, and payments.
Lead developers by scoping work, removing blockers, reviewing code, and maintaining a high bar for shipped work.
Make build-versus-buy decisions and manage SaaS vendors and consultants.
Own identity and access management across company software, including onboarding, offboarding, and credential hygiene.
Provide teams and their AI tools with secure, governed access to company data.
Set up monitoring and alerting for pipelines and tools, and lead responses to system failures.
Write and maintain documentation and runbooks for owned systems.
Set realistic timelines, deliver against them, and flag risks early.