Celara · 1 month ago
Engineering Specialist (PO - Eng - 20251120)
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expCelara is seeking a senior technologist to join as an Engineering Specialist, a role that combines leadership and technical expertise. The position involves leading multiple projects, mentoring engineers, and architecting systems while working closely with customers to create innovative AI tooling solutions.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Lead, Architect, Deliver
Serve as the technical lead across multiple projects, guiding distributed remote teams
Translate high-level customer needs into concrete technical solutions and execution plans
Architect systems, review code, maintain engineering quality, and deliver with velocity
Write and debug critical path code, unblock teams, and ensure engineering clarity and focus
Act as the technical point of authority for our customers, helping them understand and align with design decisions, tradeoffs, and system evolution
Represent & Advise
Represent the design and development work to customers—clearly articulating architecture choices, technical strategies, and rationale behind decisions
Act as a trusted technology advisor, helping customers navigate complexity and make sound decisions for the long-term health of their product
Balance technical idealism with business realities—you know when to ship and when to scale
Leverage and Build AI Tools
Use AI development tools to accelerate your work and empower your team
Collaborate with our internal tools team to improve and extend our AI capabilities based on real-world usage and friction points
Contribute to the next wave of developer tooling—not just as a user, but as a builder of the future
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with experience in a lead or staff-level role
Excellent communicator who can confidently interface with customers and engineering teams alike
Ability to break down complex problems, drive clarity, and rally teams around shared goals
Deep hands-on experience with multiple modern languages
Comfort working across multiple codebases and ecosystems
Willingness to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, stacks, and paradigms—even those you've never touched before
Strong technical judgment and a bias for action
Preferred
Experience with distributed or remote teams
Contributions to AI/ML products or developer tools
Startup experience, especially with fast-paced delivery and evolving requirements
A strong opinion about how software should be built—tempered by pragmatism
Company
Celara
Celara transforms your vision into reality by building elite near-shore technology teams with CTO-level expertise.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase