Tech Lead - Solutions 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're a fast-growing international SaaS scale-up: 180+ Pelicans, 36+ nationalities, across Paris and Miami, making real impact, every day, on the ground. 💙

About the Solution squads

Pelico's customers feel one pain above all: missing parts that block delivery. The Solution squads are where we turn Pelico's platform into a product that fixes it. Each squad owns one solution surface — Material Coverage & inventory, Quality, Supplier & customer Collaboration / AI Buyer, MRO & Aftermarket, Program Management, or Strategic Account Support — composing our platform's building blocks into workflows that work across many customers.

You'll lead one surface end to end: ship it fast, keep it configuration-first, and feed real customer patterns back into the platform — while our Regional Solution Engineering pods carry the day-to-day customer relationship.

Your mission

You'll own a solution surface — and build it yourself:

1. Ship the surface. Compose configuration, compute, widgets, connectors, and agents into customer-facing workflows that pass a real acid test on real customers.

2. Stay configuration-first. Solve in Phoenix YAML wherever you can, reach for code only when it's worth it, and never let the surface fragment into per-customer forks.

3. Set the bar. Author specs, run the spec-driven workflow, and put eval and review gates on anything AI-assisted that touches a customer.

4. Harvest the field. Spot the patterns that recur across accounts and turn them into platform capabilities, so the next customer is faster.

5. Lead by example. Write the code, pair with your squad and the engineers deploying at customer sites, raise the bar, and grow the team as the impact you ship earns it.

Your impact

Customers buy outcomes — shortages caught, deliveries recovered, quality exceptions resolved. Your squad is where the platform becomes those outcomes. Own a surface well and you make Pelico's revenue engine both faster and more defensible — and you keep it from collapsing into bespoke work that can't scale.

What we're looking for

This is a lead-by-example role for a senior full-stack engineer with real product and customer judgment. You're energized by shipping outcomes under real constraints, you decide what not to build, and you lead by being in the code with your team.

You'll need:

• A track record of shipping customer-facing product software end to end, full-stack, under real delivery pressure

• Strong, current hands-on coding — we build in Kotlin / Java 25 (backend) and TypeScript / React (frontend); strong in one and credible across, or a fast learner

• Product and customer judgment — scope to outcomes, cut to MVP under deadline, decide what not to build

• A configuration-first, anti-bespoke instinct — you build for many customers, not one fork at a time

• A track record of leading engineers by example, not by leaving the keyboard

Nice to have:

• Aerospace / defense / supply-chain / discrete-manufacturing context (MRP, BoM, coverage, MRO/TAT, program management, procurement)

• Forward-deployed / solutions-engineering / customer-embedded experience, feeding learnings back into a platform

• Configuration- or low-code-driven product experience (YAML/DSL, composable UI, workflow authoring)

• AI-native ways of working (agentic workflows, eval on AI output, spec-driven development)

• French is a plus, not a requirement

If you bring the essentials and a strong mix of the rest, we want to hear from you — we're hiring the person who'll make this real, not a checklist.

What we offer

• A real ownership mandate over a customer-facing surface, with equity in a category-defining scale-up

• Outcomes that customers feel, at real scale, with named aerospace and industrial leaders

• An AI-native engineering culture and a small, elite squad — be challenged, learn, and have fun

• Hybrid working from our Paris HQ, an international team of 36+ nationalities

Your interview experience

1. Intro call with Talent Acquisition (30 min)

2. Hiring manager conversation with the VP Engineering (45 min)

3. Case Study Onsite 1h30 / 2h

4. Leadership conversation + founders (CEO/CTO)

5. References, run in parallel

We move fast and we're transparent at every step.

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.