Tech Lead

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and development of complex, full-stack software systems, contributing hands-on across the stack.
• Review code, maintain high engineering standards, and mentor engineers through technical guidance and feedback.
• Scope and design scalable system architectures, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Sales, Mission Ops, and Marketing to align product delivery with customer and business needs.
• Drive development workflows and release coordination, ensuring smooth deployments and high-quality production systems.
• Contribute to building modern AI-enabled products, including backend services, workflows, and integrations with LLM-powered systems.
• Help grow the engineering team by participating in hiring and technical interviews.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership on complex systems or products.
• Hands-on engineer who still enjoys coding while taking on leadership responsibilities.
• Background as a Tech Lead, Senior/Staff Engineer, early engineer at a high-growth startup, or founder/co-founder of a startup.
• Experience building modern web applications with frameworks such as React or Next.js, with strong product intuition and UX/design sensibility.
• Backend expertise with modern frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, or Node.js, along with strong SQL and system design fundamentals.
• Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems or workflows.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with workflow or systems tooling (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, Redis, OAuth).

Bonus:

• Experience with distributed systems, ETL/data pipelines, DevOps tooling (Kubernetes, Helm), or mobile development.

Benefits

• Equity opportunity.
• Platinum Healthcare: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, fully covered by Pryzm.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance fully covered, with the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Relocation assistance available.