Director of Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote, Lahore Pakistan

About the Role

Pixalate is hiring a Director of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan to lead all of our Lahore engineering. The team builds the data pipelines, fraud detection logic, analytics and AI agents behind Pixalate's ad fraud, Connected TV and mobile products. The scope is the whole Lahore team, not one product: the MRT pipeline, the MRT and Analytics MCP, ad fraud detection, creative intelligence, and the shared coding agents and cloud operations that every team depends on.

Pixalate engineering is moving to AI-first development, with engineers shipping code through Claude Code agents. You will lead that way of working, not just allow it. That means setting the standard for how work is specified, how agents write and test code, how changes are reviewed, and how they reach production. You stay hands-on in architecture and in the hardest problems. You own delivery, engineering quality and the hiring bar for the existing Lahore engineers and for the Principal Claude Code Engineers and AI platform engineers joining the team.

You will work day to day with our engineering leadership, and with product managers, program managers and customer success. This is an engineering leadership role. It is not a role for someone who has stopped writing or reading code.

What You'll Do

• Lead Lahore engineering across products: set priorities, sequence work and own delivery from ticket to production.
• Lead the AI-first way of working: define how engineers use Claude Code agents, skills and MCP tools, and the specification, testing and review standards that agent-written code must meet.
• Own engineering quality: code review, QA and UAT gates, release readiness, and the response when production breaks, including incident follow-up and post-incident reviews.
• Stay hands-on in architecture: review designs for data pipelines, detection logic, APIs and MCP tools, and step into the hardest problems yourself.
• Set and hold the hiring bar: define roles, run technical interviews, and onboard new engineers so they ship in their first weeks.
• Coach and develop engineers: set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and grow technical leads.
• Oversee the shared coding-agent platform and cloud operations on AWS and GCP, including access, security and cost.
• Work with product and program management to scope, estimate and sequence work, and report status, risks and slips to engineering leadership in clear written updates.

What You Bring

Required:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• Cambridge O Levels or A Levels, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, assessed with a written exercise.
• Hands-on, current experience shipping production code with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, and a clear view of how to specify, test and review agent-written code.
• Track record delivering data-intensive or backend systems in production, with strong Python and SQL or Java, on AWS or GCP.
• Experience owning production reliability: on-call, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Experience hiring, developing and, when needed, managing out engineers.
• Architectural depth: you can critique a design and write the code yourself when it matters.
• Comfortable working across time zones, with regular overlap with US business hours.

Preferred:

• A degree from an international university.
• Experience in ad tech, ad fraud, Connected TV or large-scale event data (BigQuery or similar).
• Experience building or running MCP servers, agent skills or plugins.
• Experience leading an engineering team through a move to AI-assisted development.
• Experience managing cloud cost across AWS and GCP.

About Pixalate

We're the leader in fraud detection and privacy compliance for digital advertising, protecting billions in ad spend for Fortune 500 brands, major ad platforms, consumers, and children from deceptive, fraudulent, and non-compliant mobile and CTV apps. As fraudsters increasingly use AI to create sophisticated attacks, we're building the next generation of AI-powered detection systems to stay ahead. This is an exciting opportunity to grow with us as we expand globally. Our platform has been used to unearth multiple high-profile criminal and illegal surveillance cases, including:

• UNICEF: Pixalate was recently recognized by UNICEF as a Key Innovator for protecting children’s online privacy. & UNICEF Global Compliance Tech case study
• Gizmodo: An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
• Adweek: A 7-Figure Ad Fraud Scheme Running on Roku Underlines Murkiness of CTV
• Washington Post: Your kids’ apps are spying on them
• Pro Publica: Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
• ABC7 News: The State of Children's Privacy Online
• NBC News: How many apps are tracking your children

Why Pixalate
 

• Make a meaningful impact protecting children in digital environments
• Work with cutting-edge fraud detection and privacy-enhancing technologies
• Collaborate with a mission-driven team tackling real-world trust and safety challenges
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities in a scaling global company

Our Culture

We believe in small teams that produce high output. Slack is a way of life and short emails are encouraged. We value a fearless attitude and bold ideas. Chess players do well here. Titles don't mean much - you attain respect by producing results. Everyone's a data addict and analytical thinker who thrives on collaboration.

What We Offer

• Monthly Internet Reimbursement.
• Casual, Remote Work Environment.
• Flexible Hours.
• Opportunity for Advancement and Professional Development.
• Fun Annual Team Events.
• Being part of a high-performing global team that wants to win and have fun doing it!