Founding Tech Lead: AI Platform & Release Gate

Smartdev1; Poland; On-site; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Veris is seeking a founding technical lead to architect and ship two commercial modules: a Release Gate readiness engine and a Knowledge Health Monitor. You will lead 5–7 engineers across three streams, own architecture decisions, and deliver the first pilot client by month 3.

This role requires 5+ years in engineering with leadership experience, expertise in LLM evaluation, observability, and multi-tenant backend platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in engineering with 2+ years leading a team through a full build cycle.
• Experience designing and shipping production ML/AI evaluation systems.
• Hands-on with observability, tracing, and cost/latency attribution.
• Strong system design for multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience with enterprise knowledge sources and AI governance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the evaluation engine: LLM-as-judge, rules, and regression checks to generate a readiness score.
• Build tracing and observability across LLM calls, retrievals, and agent workflows.
• Develop the knowledge health pipeline: ingestion, analysis, and gap detection.
• Own platform core and integrations: multi-tenant architecture, RBAC, APIs, dashboards, and CI/CD hooks.
• Recruit and lead 5–7 engineers across three streams and drive architecture decisions end to end.

Skills

Engineering leadership

LLM evaluation methodology

LLM observability

RAG system architecture

AI agent systems

Backend platform engineering

Build-vs-integrate judgment

OpenTelemetry

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Redis

CI/CD integration

Tools

OpenTelemetry

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Redis

CI/CD

Job description

Veris is seeking a founding technical lead to architect and ship two commercial modules: a Release Gate readiness engine and a Knowledge Health Monitor. You will lead 5–7 engineers across three streams, own architecture decisions, and deliver the first pilot client by month 3.

This role requires 5+ years in engineering with leadership experience, expertise in LLM evaluation, observability, and multi-tenant backend platforms.