Founding Tech Lead - AI & Cloud Platform

About Aokumo

Aokumo is building the governed execution layer for enterprise AI agents.

Aokumo AI enables agents to understand IT environments, propose actions, obtain approval, execute safely, validate outcomes, and maintain a complete audit trail. We work with enterprise customers across financial services, manufacturing, and other regulated industries.

The Role

We are looking for a hands-on Founding Tech Lead to own the technical delivery of Aokumo AI.

You will work closely with the founders, lead technical execution, and continue writing production code. You will turn product priorities and customer requirements into secure, reliable releases.

This is not a pure management or architecture position. We need someone who can lead, make pragmatic technical decisions, and ship.

What You Will Own

• Technical delivery and release planning for Aokumo AI

• Architecture and implementation of core product capabilities

• Technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering team

• Reliability, testing, security, observability, and production readiness

• Agent execution, approval, validation, audit, and recovery workflows

• Integrations with cloud, development, monitoring, and enterprise systems

• Development of scalable capabilities based on customer requirements

• Engineering standards, code reviews, documentation, and deployment processes

• Technical discussions with enterprise customers

What We Need

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Experience leading the delivery of a production platform or SaaS product

• Strong hands-on backend engineering skills, ideally in Python

• Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and distributed systems

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, testing, and observability

• Strong understanding of security, authentication, authorization, and data protection

• Ability to make decisions and deliver in an early-stage, fast-moving environment

• Strong written and spoken English

Strong Advantages

• Experience building LLM applications or AI agent systems

• Experience with LangGraph, MCP, Amazon Bedrock, or similar technologies

• Background in SRE, DevOps, cloud security, or infrastructure automation

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, BYOC, or on-premises deployments

• Experience working directly with enterprise customers

• Business-level Japanese

What Success Looks Like

Within six months, you will:

• Establish a predictable product-delivery rhythm

• Take ownership of day-to-day technical delivery

• Improve agent reliability, testing, and production observability

• Turn customer requirements into scalable product capabilities

• Build a strong engineering foundation for customer and team growth

Why Join

You will have meaningful ownership over the product, architecture, and engineering culture while solving difficult problems at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, security, and enterprise IT operations.