Full-Stack Engineering Lead

Our client is a multi-disciplinary digital product agency focused on building products where content meets commerce, empowering creators and content-led businesses since 2020.

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience
• English proficiency
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns: orchestration frameworks, MCP, output quality management, prompt engineering
• Ability to take vague briefs, ask clarifying questions, plan, and deliver systems independently
• Experience building real systems end-to-end; internal tools or automation platforms experience is a plus
• Experience with access control design (RBAC, zero trust), data sensitivity, and API gateway patterns
• Experience with Python and Java including system architecture and performance optimization; Kotlin is a plus
• Strong knowledge of React, NextJS, and TypeScript
• Backend experience with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, API gateway patterns, inter-service communication (GraphQL, gRPC, or similar)
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; comfortable leading presentations and technical discussions
• Ability to balance business trade-offs and technical decisions
• Ability to design and communicate scalable technical solutions
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty and disambiguating complex scope
• Motivated to help team members succeed

Bonus Skills:

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

Technical Leadership & Development:

• Design and build AI-powered tools and automations for internal business processes
• Evaluate where LLM orchestration, chat interfaces, or multimodal AI add value versus standard software engineering
• Design async processing pipelines, batch workflows, and decoupled service architectures
• Oversee day-to-day engineering work, keeping the team unblocked and aligned
• Architect scalable backend systems using Python and Java; Kotlin is a plus
• Contribute to frontend work using React and TypeScript
• Drive decision-making around performance, scalability, and system design
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure engineering best practices
• Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and delivery

Collaboration & Client Engagement:

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