# Tech Lead
**Company:** [Pryzm](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pryzm)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, SQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, GCP, Azure, Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, Redis
**Posted:** 2025-10-18
> Hands-on tech lead owning full-stack systems for AI-powered federal procurement platform, including design, coding, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires 5+ years experience with React/Next.js, Django/FastAPI/Node.js, SQL, cloud infra, and AI/LLM integrations.
## Job Description
## 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.
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