AI voice and texting agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Lead engineering and report to me. I want to spend less time on code reviews and running the eng team, and instead talk more to customers to understand the product bottlenecks and its next evolution.
What they're looking for
- Lead the engineering team, review code, own team output
- Make architectural decisions (latency-critical distributed system)
- Set up engineering best practices and processes, mentoring
- Task prioritization to support business objectives
- Contribute to the codebase yourself (20-30% of your time)
- Hire >10 engineers over the next 12 months
More about this role
I'm Arkadiy, co-founder and CTO of Leaping AI. We build voice and SMS AI agents for home improvement companies. Every appointment we book by phone is worth $20k+ for them, generating millions of new revenue for our customers.
We were top 1% of our YC batch by growth. Closed an oversubscribed $4.7M seed in 3 days. We doubled ARR in the first half of 2026 and are aiming to double it again by year end. Current technical team consists of 3 engineers + me.
Lead engineering and report to me. I want to spend less time on code reviews and running the eng team, and instead talk more to customers to understand the product bottlenecks and its next evolution.
- Lead the engineering team, review code, own team output
- Make architectural decisions (latency-critical distributed system)
- Set up engineering best practices and processes, mentoring
- Task prioritization to support business objectives
- Contribute to the codebase yourself (20-30% of your time)
- Hire >10 engineers over the next 12 months
- Scale and latency. We handle ~3M phone calls a month. We need to be able to grow that exponentially while holding p95 end-to-end latency under 1 second.
- From calls to an operating system. Phone...
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