Tech Lead - Platform Squad

About Pelico

At Pelico, state‑of‑the‑art technology meets supply‑chain expertise in the search for operational excellence. Our manufacturing intelligence platform helps factories at Safran, Airbus, Daikin and other aerospace, defense, and industrial leaders stay agile and resilient — turning disruption into decisions. We are a fast‑growing international SaaS scale‑up with 180+ employees across 36+ nationalities in Paris and Miami, making real impact every day on the ground.

Platform Squads

Pelico is a configuration‑driven, AI‑native platform: a field engineer stands up a running factory application by authoring YAML — schema, algorithms, widgets, actions, agents — instead of writing code. The platform squads build the reusable blocks that make that possible, and we run them as a product: our customers are other engineers — the solution squads, regional engineering pods, and customer AI teams building on top of us.

Mission

You’ll own a platform capability end to end — and ship it yourself:

• Build the substrate. Author the framework, SPI, runtime, or AI tooling other squads depend on, and review the rest at architectural depth.
• Run it as a product. Own the roadmap, the contracts your consumers rely on, the adoption metric, and the deprecation policy that keeps the surface clean.
• Set the bar. Author specs, run the spec‑driven workflow, and stand up the evaluation and review gates that make agent‑authored code trustworthy.
• Harvest the field. Turn recurring customer patterns into platform capabilities, so learning compounds instead of fragmenting into bespoke forks.
• Lead by example. Write the load‑bearing code, pair with your engineers, raise their craft, and grow the squad as the leverage you ship earns it.

Impact

Every solution squad and every customer deployment is only as strong as the platform underneath it. Owning a capability cluster well gives you the ability to create leverage company‑wide, the difference between a platform that scales and a pile of one‑off forks.

Qualifications

• A track record of shipping production platform / framework / infrastructure that other engineers build on (SPIs, libraries, runtimes, dev tooling, or AI substrate)
• Deep, current hands‑on coding — we build in Kotlin / Java; strong here, or a fast learner
• Real API / SPI / abstraction‑design judgment, with a feel for performance and correctness at scale (up to hundreds of millions of records)
• A platform‑as‑product mindset — you optimize for adoption and others’ leverage, and you’re comfortable deprecating
• A track record of leading senior engineers by example, not by leaving the keyboard

Nice to Have

• Running a team as an internal platform (adoption metrics, internal NPS, deprecation, roadmap)
• Squad‑relevant depth — codegen/annotation processors, Kubernetes/IaC/observability, React/design systems, MCP/LSP/agent harnesses, ERP/connectors, or end‑user agent UX
• AI‑native ways of working (agentic workflows, eval harnesses, spec‑driven development)
• Aerospace / defense / discrete‑manufacturing context
• French is a plus, not a requirement

Benefits

• A real ownership mandate over a capability cluster, with equity in a category‑defining scale‑up
• Deep, high‑leverage problems with real customers and real scale
• An AI‑native engineering culture and a small, elite squad — be challenged, learn, and have fun
• Hybrid working from our Paris HQ with an international team of 36+ nationalities

Pelico is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the manufacturers we serve. All applications are reviewed — we’ll get back to you.