Hands-on AI Engineering Lead — Architecture & Team Growth

Riva International, Inc.; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP/TFSA matching

Paid vacation starting with three (3)\

Job summary

Riva International, Inc. in Edmonton, Canada, seeks an Engineering Team Lead to guide the AI-powered meeting intelligence product. This hands-on leadership role balances coding, architecture, and team mentorship to deliver scalable software.

You will shape architecture, lead Agile ceremonies, partner with Product, and drive CI/CD excellence while growing the team and delivering high-quality AI-enabled features.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a software engineering team.
• Experience owning system design, architecture, backlog management, delivery reporting, and engineering workflow improvements.
• Experience presenting technical decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and timelines to leadership.
• Demonstrated success coaching and mentoring engineers, providing feedback, and supporting performance conversations.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience helping a software team grow and introducing the processes needed to support that growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership. Design, build, and maintain full-stack product capabilities while contributing directly to coding, architecture, and system design.
• Own system architecture and workflow design. Lead high-level architecture decisions and design reliable end-to-end workflows for an AI-powered SaaS product.
• Lead an AI-native development environment. Use and expand agentic AI workflows throughout the development lifecycle, including specification, implementation, review, testing, and delivery.
• Partner with Product. Work closely with the Product Owner to manage the backlog, refine requirements, estimate work, plan sprints, and support product rollouts and optimization.
• Strengthen engineering delivery. Own and continuously improve development workflows, CI/CD practices, release traceability, technical standards, and team processes.
• Manage technical risk. Track technical debt, identify dependencies approaching end of support, and clearly communicate risks, tradeoffs, blockers, and timelines before they affect delivery.
• Build quality into the product. Partner with the team’s tester to strengthen unit, integration, end-to-end, and automated test coverage, particularly for AI-enabled features.
• Lead Agile team practices. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies while maintaining visibility into delivery progress.
• Communicate technical decisions. Represent the team in bi-weekly leadership meetings and explain architecture, timelines, risks, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coach and develop the team. Hold regular one-on-one meetings, provide timely feedback, mentor engineers, support performance reviews, and create opportunities for continued growth.
• Scale the team effectively. Establish the structure, processes, and working practices needed to support the team as it grows.
• Actively engage in your career progression. Examine your skill gaps and identify opportunities for training, industry certifications, and project work to elevate your skills and support continued career growth.

Skills

Leadership

AI product development

Full-stack engineering

Tools

Microsoft Graph API

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Job description

Riva International, Inc. in Edmonton, Canada, seeks an Engineering Team Lead to guide the AI-powered meeting intelligence product. This hands-on leadership role balances coding, architecture, and team mentorship to deliver scalable software.

You will shape architecture, lead Agile ceremonies, partner with Product, and drive CI/CD excellence while growing the team and delivering high-quality AI-enabled features.