Job Description
About Bolt
Bolt is shaping a future where cities are built for people, not cars. What started as an ambitious project of a 19-year-old in 2013 has grown into a global mobility platform used by more than 200 million customers and 4.5 million driver and courier partners across 50 countries.
From ride-hailing and food delivery to scooters, e-bikes, and car-sharing, Bolt helps people move through cities every day. Small, autonomous teams drive this work, combining the speed and ownership of a startup with the scale of a global technology company backed by more than 1bn in funding.
And we're just getting started.
About the role
As a Lead Engineer People Technology, youll lead the team responsible for building and evolving the systems, integrations, automation, and AI-powered capabilities that support Bolts People function.
Youll set the technical direction, support and develop engineers, and help establish reliable, scalable ways to build and maintain People technology. A key part of the role will be shaping the systems and foundations needed as the People technology landscape evolves.
Youll play a central role in defining how Bolt uses automation and agentic AI to make People processes more intelligent. This includes building practical AI-enabled workflows that can safely retrieve information, reason across systems, and take action where appropriate.
Main tasks and responsibilities
- Lead and develop the People Technology engineering team, setting priorities, supporting engineers, and providing regular feedback.
- Set the technical direction for integrations, automation, AI-enabled workflows, and core platforms that support People processes.
- Lead the engineering work required to build, improve, and evolve People systems and the connections between them.
- Shape the teams approach to agentic AI, including the design of reliable, secure, and useful AI-powered experiences and automations.
- Make architecture and build-vs-buy decisions, helping the team choose practical and sustainable solutions for new technical needs.
- Stay hands-on when needed, contributing to technical design, code reviews, and implementation of key parts of the platform, while ensuring strong standards for security, privacy, access control, and reliability.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and building backend systems, integrations, APIs, or automation platforms and experience with AI/LLM-powered automation or agentic systems.
- Experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or senior technical leader, with a track record of leading and developing engineers.
- Experience making technical and architecture decisions, with the ability to clearly communicate the trade-offs behind them.
- Comfortable working with legacy systems and leading complex migrations or major changes without disrupting critical business processes.
- Experience mentoring team members and raising a teams technical standards, ways of working, and overall engineering quality.
Nice to have
- Experience working with sensitive or regulated data, including strong access-control and privacy practices, is also a plus.
Company offers
- Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
- Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
- Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
- Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
- Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
- Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.
