Tech Lead, Platform — Data & AI (Remote)

hireworks.io; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 181,672,000 - 272,508,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Paid time off

Public holidays

Job summary

hireworks is seeking a Tech Lead, Platform (Data & AI) to shape the client’s technology strategy as they become more data-driven and AI-enabled. This highly hands-on role blends leadership with coding, owning platform architecture and mentoring a small team of engineers across data, AI/ML, and cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product and Business leadership to drive scalable data pipelines, AI-enabled features, and cloud systems on AWS/GCP, while remaining active in high-impact

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience, with 2–3+ years in senior technical leadership or people management
• Strong software engineering experience with TypeScript and Python or Java, API design and microservices
• Experience making foundational architectural decisions in early-stage or greenfield environments
• Experience with large-scale datasets, ETL pipelines, or analytics platforms
• Cloud familiarity (AWS and/or GCP) and containerized infrastructure
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across product, engineering, and business teams
• Player-coach mentality: set technical direction and contribute hands-on while building out the team

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across software development, data, AI/ML, and cloud infrastructure, mentoring a team of 3–5 engineers
• Own the platform architecture and establish pragmatic frameworks and engineering practices
• Lead build-vs-buy decisions and communicate tradeoffs to leadership
• Establish and evolve data architecture including pipelines, models, warehousing/lake infrastructure
• Identify and drive AI opportunities and productionize AI capabilities
• Own and operate AWS/GCP-based cloud systems with focus on scalability, cost, security, deployment, monitoring, reliability
• Remain hands-on on high-impact areas while guiding the team through complex engineering problems
• Plan for growth in product, data volumes, and team size and adapt architectures accordingly
• Document architecture decisions with ADRs and diagrams for maintainability
• Ensure SOC 2 compliance and security controls

Skills

Leadership

TypeScript

Python/Java

API design

Microservices

Data architecture

AWS

GCP

SOC 2

AI/ML

Documentation

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

hireworks is seeking a Tech Lead, Platform (Data & AI) to shape the client’s technology strategy as they become more data-driven and AI-enabled. This highly hands-on role blends leadership with coding, owning platform architecture and mentoring a small team of engineers across data, AI/ML, and cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product and Business leadership to drive scalable data pipelines, AI-enabled features, and cloud systems on AWS/GCP, while remaining active in high-impact