
Okiemute Izobo
@okiemuteizobo
Technical Lead at Torre, leading Emma, an AI recruiter, from architecture through production.
What I'm looking for
At Torre, I lead the end-to-end candidate journey across professional profiles, matching, job discovery, applications, and AI interviews. I also lead Emma, Torre's self-driven AI recruiter, from architecture through production.
I combine hands-on engineering with people leadership: I manage and mentor engineers, guide system design, and own delivery and reliability across services. Recent work includes rolling out a Flutter-based mobile job-search experience and improving SQL schemas, indexes, and queries to remove production bottlenecks.
Before Torre, I built a cross-border remittance platform from the ground up at HQTEC, INC., enabling Nigerians in the diaspora to send money to Nigeria. I'm open to remote opportunities worldwide across senior and staff software engineering, backend and platform engineering, technical leadership, product engineering, engineering management, and applied AI.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Technical Lead
torre.co
Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)
Lead the end-to-end candidate journey across professional profiles, matching and job discovery, applications, and AI interviews.
• Lead Emma, Torre's self-driven AI recruiter, from architecture through production, supporting autonomous applications, recruiter sourcing, and end-to-end AI interviews.
• Manage and mentor multiple engineers while leading architecture reviews, system design, and code r
Senior Software Engineer
torre.co
May 2024 - Mar 2025 (10 months)
Set technical direction for Emma and related AI product initiatives while coordinating delivery across product and engineering teams.
• Expanded Emma with human-supervised sourcing, approval controls, and automated candidate-management workflows.
• Led architecture, implementation sequencing, QA, and staged production rollout for AI interviews.
• Reviewed system designs and pull requests while men
Software Engineer
torre.co
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024 (2 years 1 month)
Contributed to customer-facing and operational systems across Torre's talent platform.
• Helped maintain professional profiles, talent-genome features, and cultural-fit experiences as part of the product team.
• Built internal operations tools that streamlined workflows and helped operators meet service-level agreements.
• Built early backend and workflow-automation capabilities for Emma across di
Full Stack Developer and Tech Lead
HQTEC, INC
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022 (3 years 6 months)
Built a cross-border remittance platform from the ground up, enabling Nigerians in the diaspora to send money to Nigeria.
• Owned full-stack delivery across frontend and backend systems, from architecture and implementation through release and production support.
• Designed and delivered the platform's core product foundations using multiple technologies and programming languages.
• Provided techn
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Benin
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering
2016 - 2021
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