Technical Lead, Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required, Work From Home

As the Technical Lead, Applications, you directly own the core application architecture that connects AI systems to real-world user experiences. You will be responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales. This position is 100% Remote.

Technical Lead Responsibilities:

– Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
– Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
– Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
– Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
– Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
– Partner closely with Machine Learning (ML) leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
– Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
– Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
– Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
– Balance speed and discipline, shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Technical Lead Outcomes:

– Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load.
– Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience.
– Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably.
– Latency and reliability improve measurably over time.

Technical Lead Qualifications:

– Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
– Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.
– Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
– Experience delivering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
– Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
– Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.
– Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
– A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
– Move fast without breaking fundamentals.

Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.

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