# Lead Engineer: Agent Academy at Focused Space

- Company: Focused Space
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.focused.space
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/focused/jobs/8008391003?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/focused-space-lead-engineer-agent-academy-2/

## About the role

At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer's needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You're a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments
- You have experience leading engineering teams and feel confident mentoring and supporting other developers
- You're proficient in Python and/or JS/TypeScript (Ruby or similar works too), and you have real opinions on repo layout, dependency management, config, and tooling that you can back up
- You've diagnosed and fixed real concurrency problems in production, whether async/await or thread-based
- You believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams. You've owned a testing strategy, from unit and integration tests to regression suites and CI gates
- You've designed the deployment, IAM model, or observability for a containerized system on a cloud provider, and you've taken a system through a scaling inflection

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/focused-space-lead-engineer-agent-academy-2/