Tech Lead – Python AI Engineering
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About the Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly experienced Tech Lead – Python AI Engineering to lead the migration and re-architecture of the SAM team’s core application into a modern technology stack. This role combines deep technical expertise with engineering leadership. The Tech Lead will own the architectural direction, guide technical standards, and ensure the successful execution of a large-scale modernization initiative. This is a hands-on leadership position focused on transforming legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native, AI-enabled solutions within AWS. The ideal candidate brings extensive backend engineering experience, strong distributed systems knowledge, and the ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy through delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Own the end-to-end technical strategy for migrating and re-architecting the SAM application into a Python-based, AWS-native architecture
- Define and enforce architecture standards, coding practices, and system design principles
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed architectures and microservices
- Design scalable, modular backend systems that support long-term platform evolution
- Review and approve technical designs to ensure alignment with performance, security, and reliability goals
- Hands-On Engineering
- Develop high-performance APIs and backend services using Python
- Refactor and modernize legacy components into clean, maintainable services
- Optimize complex SQL queries and database architectures
- Architect and deploy cloud-native infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, etc.)Ensure production-grade reliability, observability, and scalabilityAI & Innovation Enablement
- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity
- Explore and implement modern AI patterns, such as agentic workflows, task orchestration, and LLM integrations
- Provide technical direction on AI-enabled system intelligence and automation opportunities
- Team & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Manage technical risks, dependencies, and execution timelines
- Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex system challenges
- Collaborate with engineering leadership, product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver large-scale technical initiatives
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Proven experience working as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or Software Architect
- Strong expertise in Python and backend system design
- Advanced knowledge of SQL and relational database optimization
- Extensive hands-on experience building and migrating systems within AWSDemonstrated experience modernizing or re-architecting legacy applications
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience using AI-powered developer tools and LLM APIsDeep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and production reliability best practices
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Nice to Have Skills:
- Experience leading enterprise-scale application migrations
- Exposure to agent-based systems or AI orchestration frameworks
- Experience with high-availability and mission-critical enterprise systems
- Background in education technology platforms
- Experience working with large-scale transactional platforms
- Prior experience building, mentoring, or scaling engineering teams
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