Full Stack Engineering Lead

Company Description

Our client is a multi-disciplinary digital product agency focused on helping creators build lasting legacies. Since 2020, they have specialized in building products at the intersection of content and commerce, empowering established creators and content-led businesses to transform their passion into sustainable success.

About the Role

We are hiring an Engineering Lead with deep backend expertise and strong fluency across modern web stacks. This role is ideal for individuals who thrive on technical challenges, enjoy building scalable systems, and value collaboration with product, design, and client teams. You will work both independently and with small teams, write production code, and play a key role in steering technical direction.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Development

• Design and build AI-powered tools and automations to streamline internal business processes (HR, Finance, etc.), working directly with stakeholders to identify opportunities.
• Evaluate where LLM orchestration, chat interfaces, or multimodal AI genuinely add value versus when standard software engineering is the appropriate solution.
• Design async processing pipelines, batch workflows, and decoupled service architectures suitable for internal tooling at scale.
• Oversee day-to-day engineering work, ensuring the team remains unblocked and aligned on priorities.
• Architect scalable backend systems using languages and frameworks such as Python and Java. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Contribute to frontend work using React and TypeScript as needed.
• Drive decision-making regarding performance, scalability, and system design.
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
• Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery.

Collaboration & Client Engagement

• Partner with product managers and designers to define and scope solutions.
• Lead client-facing conversations regarding technical strategy and progress.
• Present work during demos, milestone check-ins, and roadmap reviews.
• Balance business needs with technical feasibility in collaborative planning sessions.

Team Mentorship & Culture

• Provide regular feedback and guidance to engineers.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and leveling processes.
• Foster a strong, inclusive engineering culture rooted in transparency and accountability.
• Identify opportunities to improve tools, processes, and technical standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience.
• English proficiency.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns: orchestration frameworks, MCP, output quality management, and prompt engineering.
• Ability to take a vague brief, ask clarifying questions, form a plan, and deliver a working system with minimal supervision.
• Proven experience building real systems end-to-end with specific examples. Prior experience with internal tools or automation platforms is a strong plus.
• Experience with access control design (RBAC, zero trust principles), data sensitivity considerations, and API gateway patterns.
• Experience with Python and Java, including system architecture and performance optimization, is required. Kotlin experience is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of React, NextJS, and TypeScript.
• Backend experience with APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, API gateway patterns, and inter-service communication (GraphQL, gRPC, or similar).
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences, comfortable leading presentations and technical discussions.
• Understanding of how to balance business trade-offs and technical decisions.
• Ability to design and communicate robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Comfort dealing with uncertainty and capable of disambiguating complex scope and domains.
• People-focused and motivated to help team members achieve success.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, or building AI-augmented internal tools.
• Informed opinions on the current AI tooling landscape.
• Experience building creator platforms, media tools, or community-driven products.
• Interest in developer experience, automation, or DevOps tooling.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly culture.
• Flexible time-off allowance for vacation, sick days, and personal time as needed.