Director of Engineering (Remote, Lahore)

About the role

Pixalate is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead its entire Lahore engineering team, which builds the data pipelines, fraud detection logic, analytics and AI agents behind its ad fraud, Connected TV and mobile products. The role covers the MRT pipeline, MRT and Analytics MCP, ad fraud detection, creative intelligence and the shared coding agents and cloud operations. Pixalate is moving to AI-first development, with engineers shipping code through Claude Code agents; the Director will lead that way of working and stay hands-on in architecture and the hardest problems.

Key responsibilities

• Lead Lahore engineering across products: set priorities, sequence work and own delivery from ticket to production.
• Define how engineers use Claude Code agents, skills and MCP tools, and the specification, testing and review standards for agent-written code.
• Own engineering quality: code review, QA and UAT gates, release readiness, incident follow-up and post-incident reviews.
• Review designs for data pipelines, detection logic, APIs and MCP tools, and step into the hardest problems yourself.
• Set and hold the hiring bar: define roles, run technical interviews and onboard engineers so they ship in their first weeks.
• Coach and develop engineers, set clear expectations and give direct feedback.
• Oversee the shared coding-agent platform and cloud operations on AWS and GCP, including access, security and cost.
• Work with product and program management to scope, estimate and sequence work, and report status, risks and slips to engineering leadership.

Required profile

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field; Cambridge O/A Levels or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal English, assessed with a written exercise.
• Track record delivering data-intensive or backend systems in production, with strong Python and SQL or Java, on AWS or GCP.
• Experience owning production reliability: on-call, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Experience hiring, developing and, when needed, managing out engineers.
• Architectural depth: able to critique a design and write the code yourself when it matters.
• Comfortable working across time zones, with regular overlap with US business hours.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience shipping production code with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, and a clear view of how to specify, test and review agent-written code.
• Preferred: experience in ad tech, ad fraud, Connected TV or large-scale event data (BigQuery or similar).
• Preferred: experience building or running MCP servers, agent skills or plugins, leading a team through AI-assisted development, and managing cloud cost across AWS and GCP.

What we offer

• Monthly internet reimbursement.
• Casual, remote work environment and flexible hours.
• Opportunity for advancement and professional development.
• Fun annual team events.