Hands-On Lead: AI & Agentic Engineering

GenTech AI Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora Malaysia is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead – AI & Agentic Engineering to lead production-grade AI and enterprise applications, combining software engineering with practical AI agentic workflows.

You will guide engineers, make key technical decisions, review code, and stay hands-on; design with LLMs, agent orchestration, RAG, and ensure scalable, secure architecture across APIs, databases and cloud native platforms.

Qualifications

• At least 6–10 years of software engineering experience with technical delivery.
• Strong hands-on software development and architecture background.
• Proven production software delivery experience.
• Ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and development of AI-powered applications and enterprise software solutions.
• Translate product requirements into scalable architecture and practical implementation plans.
• Guide Software Engineers and AI Engineers across development, integration, testing and deployment.
• Make technical decisions covering APIs, databases, system integration, security, scalability and application architecture.
• Review code and ensure strong engineering standards, maintainability and quality.
• Remain hands-on in solving complex technical issues and critical production problems.
• Design and implement solutions involving LLMs, AI Agents, multi-agent systems, RAG, tool calling, memory, human-in-the-loop workflows and agent orchestration.
• Establish effective Agentic Code Engineering practices using AI coding agents for development, debugging, refactoring, testing and documentation.
• Define engineering standards, automated testing, CI/CD and quality controls to ensure AI-generated code is reliable and maintainable.
• Coach developers on how to work effectively with AI coding tools and agentic development workflows.
• Work closely with Product, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Presales teams to ensure solutions are technically feasible and successfully delivered.
• Mentor engineers and continuously improve the team's engineering capability, development velocity and technical practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

AI agents

Agentic workflows

AI-powered software development

Code review

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

Vue.js

MongoDB

REST APIs

Webhooks

Microservices

CI/CD

Job description

Jora Malaysia is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead – AI & Agentic Engineering to lead production-grade AI and enterprise applications, combining software engineering with practical AI agentic workflows.

You will guide engineers, make key technical decisions, review code, and stay hands-on; design with LLMs, agent orchestration, RAG, and ensure scalable, secure architecture across APIs, databases and cloud native platforms.