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We're hiring a technical lead to own them: the tools, the integrations behind them, the data that flows through them, and the developers who build them.\nYou'll partner with leaders across the company to decide what to build, write code every week, and be accountable for whether these systems actually help the business run.\nAbout Aquaria\nAquaria builds machines that make clean drinking water from air. Our mission is to safeguard and unlock a sustainable future for clean water. We're backed by investors including Mistletoe, Soma Capital, Bow Capital, Ciri Ventures, HF0, and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt. Our technology was selected among TIME's Best Inventions of 2024 and received an Honorable Mention for Developing-World Technology in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. 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This team builds with AI coding tools, so you should know where they speed you up and where their output needs a closer review.\nWe bias toward shipping: get a working version in front of users early, then iterate. Most weeks keep regular hours, and when a system the team depends on goes down, we fix it the same day.\nMuch of our communication is written and asynchronous. 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