AI-Native Technical Lead — Full-Stack & Gen‑E2

palo it singapore pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

PALO IT Singapore is hiring an AI-Native Technical Lead to own technical direction and drive AI‑augmented delivery. You will lead engineering teams, embed Gen‑E2 practices, and partner with clients and stakeholders to shape solutions and estimates.

You will champion AI-native ways of working, establish best practices for coding quality, testing, and documentation, and mentor engineers to deliver high‑quality, production‑grade applications across platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience including recent experience in client and team management.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Deep technological expertise in full-stack development. Preferred technologies include ReactJS for frontend development and NodeJS/Java/Python for backend development.
• Experience in developing scalable, reliable, and secure applications.
• Experience with solution architecture.
• Strong understanding of common programming patterns and principles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work (not just theoretical exposure).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and roadmap for engineering projects.
• Provide full-stack expertise to the engineering team and establish best practices on code quality and performance.
• Shepherd technical decision‑making and provide thought‑leadership.
• Provide architecture-level and code-level feedback for the engineering team.
• Build confidence in project delivery through automated testing, continuous integration, monitoring and analytics.
• Monitor project progress and delivery quality across teams.
• Ensure timelines, outcomes, and engineering standards are met.
• Champion AI-native ways of working across the team, including AI‑assisted development, testing, and documentation.
• Define and enforce AI/GenAI best practices, including: prompt and context engineering standards
• Output validation, guardrails, and fallback strategies
• Code review standards for AI-generated code
• Stay current with emerging GenAI trends and translate them into practical implementations.
• Act as a technical authority and coach on Gen‑E2 practices and responsible AI/GenAI adoption.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver high‑quality code and projects.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and career development planning for team members.
• Manage performance through clear goal setting, regular feedback and reviews, and identification of growth opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and learning‑driven culture.
• Recruit and build high‑performing engineering teams.
• Collaborate with clients to understand business problems, design solutions, and lead implementation.
• Partner with Sales and Presales teams to shape proposals, solution approaches, and contribute to technical responses and estimations.
• Contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, and frameworks to scale delivery efficiency.
• Support Palo IT thought leadership through research, experimentation, and publication.

Skills

AI-native leadership

Full-stack dev

ReactJS

Backend development

Mentoring

Communication

Cloud platforms

Tools

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

PALO IT Singapore is hiring an AI-Native Technical Lead to own technical direction and drive AI‑augmented delivery. You will lead engineering teams, embed Gen‑E2 practices, and partner with clients and stakeholders to shape solutions and estimates.

You will champion AI-native ways of working, establish best practices for coding quality, testing, and documentation, and mentor engineers to deliver high‑quality, production‑grade applications across platforms.