Remote AI Tech Lead: Architect & Mentor for Scale

Talent Army; Tauranga; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from Home options

Monthly wellness allowance

Health insurance cover

Extended paid parental leave

Paid birthday leave

Share options

Opportunity to influence architecture

Job summary

Jora New Zealand, a fast-growing software company, is seeking a Tech Lead in Tauranga to own technical architecture within a product squad while remaining hands-on with development.

You will guide system design, reliability, security and technical decision-making, mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering leadership, while engaging with customers to translate problems into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, building and supporting large-scale systems.
• Strong C# .NET Framework/.NET Core and REST API expertise.
• Solid Azure PaaS and Azure Web App experience.
• GitHub, CI/CD and modern engineering workflow experience.
• Practical experience building AI/LLM-powered products, ideally across areas such as RAG, evaluations or agentic systems, with exposure to Microsoft/Azure AI tooling such as Semantic Kernel, Azure Content Understanding or MS Agent Framework a bonus.
• Experience integrating and deploying AI models or services into production cloud environments.
• Strong architecture and Agile delivery experience.
• Comfortable engaging with customers and non-technical stakeholders, translating problems into clear technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor and influence other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture within the product squad and shape the technical roadmap.
• Remain hands-on with development while guiding system design, reliability and security.
• Mentor engineers and partner with Product, Design and Engineering leadership.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to translate real-world problems into technical solutions.

Skills

Large-scale systems

C# .NET REST

Azure

CI/CD

AI/LLM tooling

AI deployment

Software architecture

Customer communication

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub

Azure

CI/CD

Job description

Jora New Zealand, a fast-growing software company, is seeking a Tech Lead in Tauranga to own technical architecture within a product squad while remaining hands-on with development.

You will guide system design, reliability, security and technical decision-making, mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering leadership, while engaging with customers to translate problems into scalable solutions.