Lead Engineer

The Opportunity

Join a fast-growing AI marketing agency at a pivotal moment. Were not just using AIwere building proprietary platforms that transform how brands approach marketing. As our Principal/Lead Engineer youll architect and build the technical foundation that powers innovative AI-driven marketing solutions for global clients.

This isnt a typical engineering role. Youll have the unique opportunity to:

Shape the technical vision of a growing AI company from the earliest stages

Work with cutting-edge AI technologies (GraphRAG LLMs generative AI pipelines) in production

Balance hands-on development (65% coding) with strategic architecture decisions (35%)

Partner directly with enterprise clientsincluding Fortune 500 companiesas their technical counterpart

Build and mentor a world-class engineering team as we scale

What Youll Do

Strategic Architecture (35% of time)

Design scalable secure cloud architectures for AI-powered marketing platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP

Partner with enterprise clients as the technical counterpart to their Solution Architects and IT leadership teams

Make critical technology decisions balancing rapid MVP delivery with long-term scalability

Evaluate AI tools and infrastructurebuild vs. buy decisions for AI models commercial APIs vs. open-source solutions

Plan for compliance and securityprepare for ISO 27001 GDPR and CCPA certifications

Own the technical roadmap aligned with business objectives and market needs

Hands-On Development & Technical Leadership (65% of time)

Build core platform components using Python (FastAPI/Flask) designing and implementing production-ready APIs

Architect end-to-end data pipelinesfrom ingestion through processing to AI model integration

Lead infrastructure setupestablish CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Develop AI/ML solutionsimplement GraphRAG pipelines RAG architectures and integrate LLM APIs into production systems

Code review and mentor engineers while maintaining high code quality standards

Drive engineering excellenceestablish development workflows testing practices and modern Agile/Lean methodologies

Team Building & Culture

Lead by example through hands-on contributions and code reviews

Establish engineering best practices and quality standards that scale

Build and mentor the engineering team as we grow

What Were Looking For

Must-Have Experience

7 years of software engineering experience with increasing technical leadership

Fluent English & Spanish (written and spoken)youll engage daily in complex technical discussions with international clients and stakeholders

Strong Python expertise with modern frameworks (FastAPI Flask) and API design (REST GraphQL)

Production cloud experience designing and deploying scalable systems on AWS Azure or GCP

DevOps & Infrastructure masteryDocker Kubernetes CI/CD infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Data architecture experiencedesigning data pipelines ETL processes and working with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Track record of building 0-to-1 products or leading technical initiatives in startup/scale-up environments

Highly Desired (What Makes You Stand Out)

AI/ML production experienceespecially with LLMs RAG architectures GraphRAG or generative AI pipelines

Experience as a technical liaison to enterprise clients or as Solution Architect on large-scale projects

Vector databases (FAISS Weaviate Qdrant) or graph databases (Neo4j) experience

Background in marketing tech adtech or SaaS platforms

Security & compliance knowledgeISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR or similar frameworks

Open-source contributions or technical writing/speaking experience

Personal Attributes

Entrepreneurial mindsetcomfortable with ambiguity and excited about building from scratch

Hands-on builder who can balance strategic thinking with getting into the code

Excellent communicatorable to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Quality-driven with strong opinions about best practices but pragmatic about trade-offs

Natural mentor who enjoys helping others grow technically

Curious about AI and passionate about its practical applications in business

Our Technology Stack

We use modern best-in-class technologies. Heres what youll work with:

Cloud & Infrastructure

Cloud: AWS & Azure (multi-cloud ready)

IaC: Terraform Bicep

Containers: Docker ECS (Fargate) EKS/AKS

CI/CD: GitHub Actions Azure DevOps

Secrets: AWS Systems Manager Azure Key Vault

Backend & APIs

Primary: Python (FastAPI Flask)

Secondary:

Testing: Pytest Ruff

Data & Databases

Relational: PostgreSQL (RDS / Azure Database)

Caching: Redis (ElastiCache)

Object Storage: S3 Azure Blob Storage

ETL: Airbyte dbt Azure Data Factory

Processing: Apache Spark (EMR / Azure Synapse)

AI & Machine Learning

LLMs: OpenAI (GPT-4o) Azure OpenAI Anthropic

RAG Frameworks: GraphRAG with Neo4j LangChain LlamaIndex

Vector DBs: FAISS Weaviate Qdrant

ML Deployment: SageMaker Azure ML Hugging Face

Classic ML: scikit-learn spaCy XGBoost

Observability & Security

Monitoring: CloudWatch Azure Monitor Prometheus Grafana

Error Tracking: Sentry

Auth: OAuth2/JWT Cognito Azure AD B2C

What We Offer

Competitive compensation reflecting your senior expertise and leadership impact

Hybrid flexibilitywork from home 3 days with strategic 2 days in-office collaboration

Professional development budget for courses conferences and certifications

Cutting-edge technologywork with the latest AI/ML tools and modern cloud infrastructure

High autonomyown technical decisions and drive architectural direction

Direct impactsee your work go from idea to production in weeks not months

International exposurecollaborate with clients and teams across E...