Tech Lead

Tech Lead

$200,000 USD / year

New York City, USA

Full-time | Hybrid

Formal employment

We are seeking a Technical Lead to join a fast-evolving enterprise technology environment. In this role, you will contribute to platform expansion by owning the technical execution of an internal operating platform, ensuring that multiple parallel development workstreams integrate cleanly, meet quality standards, and ship reliably.

The ideal candidate brings a strong full-stack engineering foundation, hands-on experience with AI/LLM integrations, and a proven ability to coordinate across internal and external development teams. This position focuses on owning architecture decisions, enforcing code quality standards, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and personally building modules and features alongside orchestration duties.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
• Minimum of 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical lead capacity, coordinating across multiple developers or teams
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript across the full stack
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps practices (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent)
• Proven ability in API design, microservices architecture, and database design (SQL and/or NoSQL)
• Fluency with Git workflows in a multi-contributor environment, including branching strategies, code review, and merge conflict resolution
• Experience working with and technically coordinating external development firms or distributed engineering teams
• Strong documentation discipline, including written technical specifications, architecture diagrams, and codebase legibility standards
• Ability to translate product requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria for development teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English to collaborate with cross-functional and international teams
• An analytical mindset with a structured and detail-oriented approach to work
• Ability to work independently, prioritise tasks effectively, and adapt to shifting business demands

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with AI/LLM integration, including RAG architectures, embeddings, prompt engineering, and orchestration of AI service APIs
• Experience with the Microsoft ecosystem and Azure cloud services
• Familiarity with the Anthropic Claude API, LangChain/LangGraph, or similar LLM orchestration frameworks
• Prior work in regulated or high-trust enterprise environments
• Experience building multi-tenant or role-based platforms with siloed user views on a shared data layer
• Participation in greenfield platform builds or technical governance of scaling codebases

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and integrity of the platform across all modules, APIs, and the shared database layer
• Define and enforce coding standards, branching strategies, code review processes, and documentation requirements across all internal and external contributors
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support multiple parallel development workstreams merging into a single platform
• Serve as the central technical coordinator across the external development partner and any internal or contract developers, reviewing pull requests, managing merge conflicts across module boundaries, and ensuring integration quality
• Translate product requirements from the internal project owner into technical specifications and acceptance criteria for development teams
• Personally build modules and platform features, including AI/LLM-powered functionality such as RAG pipelines, embeddings, prompt orchestration, and API integrations with AI services
• Contribute production-quality JavaScript/TypeScript code across the full stack
• Design and optimize database schemas (SQL and/or NoSQL) and API contracts
• Stand up and maintain automated testing, deployment pipelines, and environment management practices
• Own Git workflow governance, including branch protection, pull request review standards, and release tagging
• Monitor platform reliability and establish incident response practices as the system scales
• Continuously expand technical and functional expertise within the assigned area of responsibility

Pay: $180,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10040