Technical Lead

Technical Lead | Remote, Australia | $190,000 to $210,000 plus Super

A venture backed technology business is hiring a Technical Lead to own the technical direction of its newest AI product. The business is founder led and recently funded, and major customers already use it.

This role sits at the centre of an AI and data product built into the core platform. The product uses LLMs to take manual work out of how customers compare and select. You will spend most of your week hands on, lead a small team, and work directly with the cofounder who has built the product so far.

What you'll be doing

• Own the product's technical direction, setting architecture, engineering standards and roadmap with the founders
• Design, build and ship production LLM applications with LangChain and LangGraph, including evals, orchestration and monitoring
• Write production TypeScript every week, with Python for prototyping
• Run what you ship on AWS, keeping it fast, stable and cost effective
• Lead and develop one engineer to start, then grow the team by one or two and help hire the next senior engineer
• Work with a senior product designer and the founders to understand customers and shape what gets built next

What we're looking for

• Deep software engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, staff engineer or technical owner of a product
• Production experience with LLM applications, including designing how they are evaluated
• Strong TypeScript across front end and back end
• Solid cloud experience. AWS is preferred, but Azure or GCP is equally relevant
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and a preference for a role that stays around 80% technical
• A real focus on customers and product, and the judgement to explain trade offs clearly to founders and non engineers