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Engineering Leader
<h2>About Kernel</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Agents are starting to sell, buy and operate on behalf of companies. But before an agent can close a deal, qualify an account, route a lead or assess risk, it has to answer a basic question: which company is this?</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Today, that answer is messy, and no one answers it reliably. Business identity lives across CRMs, ERPs and third-party datasets full of duplicates, missing parent companies, stale addresses and incorrect enrichment. The cost shows up across the enterprise: sales teams miss revenue opportunities because they lack the right account context; operations teams take on avoidable exposure because risk signals are fragmented or wrong; and finance teams end up chasing, writing off, or defaulting on bad debt that should have been caught earlier.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Humans have worked around that mess for years. Agents cannot. They need a reliable business identity layer they can trust.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Kernel is building that layer: the business registry for agents. We issue a permanent KERN ID for every business, plus the context an agent needs to act on it. Ops, data and revenue teams at <strong>Gong, Legora, Mistral, Canva and Checkout</strong> already use Kernel on their own systems. Agents are next, and there will be far more of them.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We have raised <strong>$20M </strong>from <strong>top VCs and operators at Plaid, OpenAI, Slack and others, and we are growing 5x YoY.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll be a player-coach engineering leader with a spike in technical strategy, you'll own engineering delivery for your team end-to-end - from developing exceptional engineers to solving some of our most difficult engineering problems & setting technical direction.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll spend roughly 20% of your time contributing code and 80% leading your team, with that ratio shifting as we scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help set technical direction and architecture decisions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with the engineering to tackle some of our most difficult problems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own engineering delivery with an emphasis on velocity</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate closely with Product on roadmap and prioritisation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write code when needed so you'll stay close to the product</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are in the unique situation that our commercial traction is ahead of our product. You’ll play a leading role in moving towards automation in a way that enables us to rapidly scale with increased complexity and specific customer nuances.</p><p style="min-height:1.5e